This document provides the final report for a project aimed at developing a manual and training programs for educational knowledge linking change agents. It describes the project's objectives, achievements, and history. The project produced a 200+ page manual called "A Guide to Innovation in Education" through extensive collaboration with change agents. It was revised based on reviews from 115 educators and is being further updated. The project also included a conference that discussed change agent training and produced preliminary training designs. The report evaluates the manual and discusses next steps to improve change agent roles and training.
The focus groups provided feedback from six locations on opportunities to improve the Boots to Business program. Key issues identified included: needing more case studies and real-life examples in the curriculum; incorporating tools to help participants decide if business ownership is right for them; and adding more material on franchises and developing financial projections. Participants wanted a more interactive class with practical exercises. Instructors noted multiple presenters kept participants engaged. Updating videos and following a clear roadmap for starting a business were also suggested. Addressing these curriculum and engagement issues could help strengthen the program.
Religion and governance-seminar_on_governance_and_civilizations-brussels-1998...RareBooksnRecords
1) The document discusses how religion and spirituality will impact governance in the 21st century as society transitions from a modern to a "transmodern" worldview.
2) It argues that in the transmodern era, "religion" defined as organized spirituality will play a larger role in governance, and individual spirituality will be an important part of leadership.
3) A growing minority hold transmodern views that embrace diversity, environmentalism, and a blend of rational and intuitive thinking - views that will influence how religion interacts with governments and other institutions overseeing public policy.
The document summarizes key points from a 1969 speech by an insider who predicted changes that would be brought about by an organized group to control major world events and transition to a "new world system" by the year 2000. Some of the changes discussed included: population control through limiting family sizes and regulating births; promoting sexual freedom and activity without reproduction through widespread contraception, sex education, and abortion; and normalizing behaviors such as homosexuality, premarital sex, and having children outside the context of traditional marriage. The speaker indicated these changes would be surprising but were necessary to transition to the new system.
The great betrayal-stephen_wise-jacob_de_haas-1930-310pgs-rel-polRareBooksnRecords
This document introduces the book "The Great Betrayal" by Stephen S. Wise and Jacob de Haas, which aims to present the facts surrounding Britain's changing policy on Palestine from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the Passfield White Paper in 1930. It traces how Britain moved from its original commitment to facilitating a Jewish national home in Palestine to imposing new restrictions. The introduction sets up the indictment that Britain betrayed its obligations under the mandate it received from the League of Nations to implement the Balfour Declaration.
Memoirs of count_bernstorff-j_bernstorff-1936-381pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
Count Bernstorff provides background on his youth and family in 3 paragraphs. He was born in London where his father was the German ambassador. His family had a long history in the German diplomatic service. After his father's death, his mother withdrew to the family estate in Germany where Bernstorff spent much of his childhood and youth. He attended several schools but did not distinguish himself academically. His early experiences in England and connections to the royal family would influence his political views and career in diplomacy later in life.
Health ed journal_la_city_schools-marion_firor-1957-gov-edu-psyRareBooksnRecords
1. The document discusses recognizing symptoms of emotional disturbance in children and when to refer them for clinical help. It outlines 12 categories of behaviors that may indicate a problem, such as hyperactivity, withdrawal, depression, and learning difficulties.
2. The document emphasizes that teachers can play an important role in prevention by providing support during times of crisis, when a child's emotional equilibrium may be upset. Recognizing crisis periods and offering reassurance can help guide a child towards adaptation rather than mental health issues.
3. The document advises that a child may need clinical referral if their behavior becomes unrealistic, repetitive, or inflexible. Teachers can help identify these situations and encourage parents to seek professional assistance. Early intervention
Maine association of_christian_schools-world_bank-1984-6pgs-edu-polRareBooksnRecords
The document is a letter from the Maine Association of Christian Schools providing information about Kevin Ryan's testimony regarding Boston University, Portugal, and the World Bank. Specifically, it includes portions of Ryan's testimony where he describes: 1) His role working with the Portuguese Ministry of Education to develop new teacher training institutions; 2) How the World Bank supported Portugal's modernization of its education system to join the European economic community; and 3) His responsibilities recruiting experts and advising on curriculum for the teacher training program between Boston University and Portugal.
Red smoke isaac-don_levine-author_of_stalin-1932-143pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
This document is an excerpt from a book about the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. It summarizes that the Plan is based on a comprehensive government survey of Russia's natural resources. The survey found that Russia's resources are actually quite limited compared to other industrialized countries. In particular, Russia has very limited coal reserves, which are crucial for powering industry. The book argues this means the Soviet Union will struggle to industrialize and compete economically with countries like the United States that have greater natural resource wealth.
The focus groups provided feedback from six locations on opportunities to improve the Boots to Business program. Key issues identified included: needing more case studies and real-life examples in the curriculum; incorporating tools to help participants decide if business ownership is right for them; and adding more material on franchises and developing financial projections. Participants wanted a more interactive class with practical exercises. Instructors noted multiple presenters kept participants engaged. Updating videos and following a clear roadmap for starting a business were also suggested. Addressing these curriculum and engagement issues could help strengthen the program.
Religion and governance-seminar_on_governance_and_civilizations-brussels-1998...RareBooksnRecords
1) The document discusses how religion and spirituality will impact governance in the 21st century as society transitions from a modern to a "transmodern" worldview.
2) It argues that in the transmodern era, "religion" defined as organized spirituality will play a larger role in governance, and individual spirituality will be an important part of leadership.
3) A growing minority hold transmodern views that embrace diversity, environmentalism, and a blend of rational and intuitive thinking - views that will influence how religion interacts with governments and other institutions overseeing public policy.
The document summarizes key points from a 1969 speech by an insider who predicted changes that would be brought about by an organized group to control major world events and transition to a "new world system" by the year 2000. Some of the changes discussed included: population control through limiting family sizes and regulating births; promoting sexual freedom and activity without reproduction through widespread contraception, sex education, and abortion; and normalizing behaviors such as homosexuality, premarital sex, and having children outside the context of traditional marriage. The speaker indicated these changes would be surprising but were necessary to transition to the new system.
The great betrayal-stephen_wise-jacob_de_haas-1930-310pgs-rel-polRareBooksnRecords
This document introduces the book "The Great Betrayal" by Stephen S. Wise and Jacob de Haas, which aims to present the facts surrounding Britain's changing policy on Palestine from the Balfour Declaration in 1917 to the Passfield White Paper in 1930. It traces how Britain moved from its original commitment to facilitating a Jewish national home in Palestine to imposing new restrictions. The introduction sets up the indictment that Britain betrayed its obligations under the mandate it received from the League of Nations to implement the Balfour Declaration.
Memoirs of count_bernstorff-j_bernstorff-1936-381pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
Count Bernstorff provides background on his youth and family in 3 paragraphs. He was born in London where his father was the German ambassador. His family had a long history in the German diplomatic service. After his father's death, his mother withdrew to the family estate in Germany where Bernstorff spent much of his childhood and youth. He attended several schools but did not distinguish himself academically. His early experiences in England and connections to the royal family would influence his political views and career in diplomacy later in life.
Health ed journal_la_city_schools-marion_firor-1957-gov-edu-psyRareBooksnRecords
1. The document discusses recognizing symptoms of emotional disturbance in children and when to refer them for clinical help. It outlines 12 categories of behaviors that may indicate a problem, such as hyperactivity, withdrawal, depression, and learning difficulties.
2. The document emphasizes that teachers can play an important role in prevention by providing support during times of crisis, when a child's emotional equilibrium may be upset. Recognizing crisis periods and offering reassurance can help guide a child towards adaptation rather than mental health issues.
3. The document advises that a child may need clinical referral if their behavior becomes unrealistic, repetitive, or inflexible. Teachers can help identify these situations and encourage parents to seek professional assistance. Early intervention
Maine association of_christian_schools-world_bank-1984-6pgs-edu-polRareBooksnRecords
The document is a letter from the Maine Association of Christian Schools providing information about Kevin Ryan's testimony regarding Boston University, Portugal, and the World Bank. Specifically, it includes portions of Ryan's testimony where he describes: 1) His role working with the Portuguese Ministry of Education to develop new teacher training institutions; 2) How the World Bank supported Portugal's modernization of its education system to join the European economic community; and 3) His responsibilities recruiting experts and advising on curriculum for the teacher training program between Boston University and Portugal.
Red smoke isaac-don_levine-author_of_stalin-1932-143pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
This document is an excerpt from a book about the Soviet Union's Five-Year Plan. It summarizes that the Plan is based on a comprehensive government survey of Russia's natural resources. The survey found that Russia's resources are actually quite limited compared to other industrialized countries. In particular, Russia has very limited coal reserves, which are crucial for powering industry. The book argues this means the Soviet Union will struggle to industrialize and compete economically with countries like the United States that have greater natural resource wealth.
The document introduces SPEEDE/ExPRESS, an electronic system for exchanging student records between educational institutions efficiently. It was developed with input from organizations like AACRAO and involves standard transcript formats approved by ASC X12. The system uses electronic networks, disks, or tapes to transmit student data in a format that can be translated into any receiving institution's system. This facilitates accurate transfer of student academic histories and credits between schools.
This book review summarizes the key points made in the book "The Leipzig Connection" about the systematic destruction of American education. It traces how the educational psychology prevalent in the US was influenced by Wilhelm Wundt's work establishing experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany in the late 1800s. Wundt's students, including G. Stanley Hall and John Dewey, returned to the US and spread his teachings that humans are merely products of their experiences, lacking free will. They gained influential positions in universities with Rockefeller funding, shaping teacher training and the curriculum to reflect Wundtian psychology. This corrupted education and spread rapidly as it was promoted by teachers colleges, especially Columbia University's which had strong Rockefeller backing.
This chapter provides background on Adolf Hitler and the early days of the Nazi party in Germany. It describes Hitler's upbringing in Austria and struggles as a young man in Vienna. It details how he joined the German army in WWI and was decorated for bravery. After the war, Hitler was inspired to enter politics after hearing Anton Drexler speak. He joined Drexler's small nationalist party and quickly became its leader. The chapter outlines Hitler's early struggles to grow the Nazi party through public speeches, despite opposition from socialists. It describes a pivotal early Nazi rally that was violently disrupted but from which Hitler and the party emerged stronger. The chapter establishes Hitler's rise from an unknown soldier to a leader of a bur
Staff development leadership-institute_for_principles-clara_boswell-1985-157p...RareBooksnRecords
The North Carolina Leadership Institute for Principals provides ongoing professional development for principals through various programs. It conducts around 30 regional seminars and 5-10 statewide seminars annually based on needs assessments. Seminars cover topics like evaluation, leadership, supervision and last 1-5 days. The Institute also offers coaching for select principals to train their peers. Other programs include liaison with businesses, internships, telephone assistance, newsletters and an assessment center. The goal is to support principals as instructional leaders through comprehensive, field-based training.
This document summarizes the challenges of leading planned second-order change or transformation in schools. It discusses four main challenges:
1. Conquering a world anchored in a pervasive status quo that resists change.
2. Working in a highly risky environment as the leader challenges the existing paradigm.
3. Helping the organization through a period of system-wide disconnectedness when the existing context is disintegrated.
4. Not being able to rely on tested change management techniques, as second-order change transcends logical approaches.
The document argues that successful transformation requires overcoming these challenges by progressively bending the pervasive mindset and surviving the risky period of ambiguity between the old and
The communist magazine-schools_and_the_peoples_front-1957-17pgs-eduRareBooksnRecords
This article discusses the role of public schools in the development of a People's Front movement in the United States. It argues that while public schools were established through popular struggle led by unions, they ultimately serve the function of perpetuating capitalist ideology. The article outlines some of the key issues with how schools are currently administered and the impact this has on students. It asserts that the educational crisis cannot be separated from the broader capitalist crisis. The article concludes by arguing for the development of a progressive philosophy of education centered around Marxism-Leninism to guide the people's movement in transforming both the content and administration of schools.
This document provides background information on the Senate Investigating Committee on Education in California and its investigation into the textbook "Building America". Key points:
- The Committee was established in 1947 to investigate widespread public protest against the adoption of Building America for use in California elementary schools.
- The textbook contained material that many felt was unsuitable for conditioning the thinking of young students and needed extensive revision. Only revised copies were available for the Committee to review.
- The State Superintendent criticized the legislature for withholding funds to purchase Building America, arguing this undermined the authority of the State Board of Education to adopt textbooks.
- The Committee conducted this investigation and report to provide the legislature with facts about the revised textbook, which
The czech conspiracy-george_lane_fox-pitt_rivers-1938-102pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
This document is an introduction and prologue to a book about the Czech conspiracy and its role in the events leading up to World War II. The author provides background on why and how the book was written, describing their experiences and research in Central Europe. They discuss the controversy around a meeting they spoke at about Czechoslovakia and the tensions around discussing different ethnic groups and minorities, particularly Jews. The prologue sets up the topic of the full book and arguments that will be made about the secret influences and plots that threatened to bring about catastrophe in Europe.
This document summarizes the activities of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA), which it describes as the "House of Lords" of the American press. The ANPA holds secret annual meetings to discuss plans and policies without public scrutiny. While publicly advocating for freedom of the press, the meetings focus on anti-labor tactics and fighting measures that threaten newspaper profits and the interests of big business. The document provides historical examples of the ANPA lobbying to benefit newspaper owners' financial interests at the expense of balanced coverage. It argues the ANPA has become an advocate for the policies of big business rather than upholding journalistic ethics.
The document provides background information on Dr. Ernest V. Hollis, who is testifying before the committee. It summarizes that Hollis has a PhD from Columbia University in school and college administration, and has experience teaching and serving as dean and president at various colleges and universities. It also notes that Hollis has written on the topic of philanthropic foundations and higher education, authoring a book on the subject in 1938 and several related articles since then.
The freemasons monitor-z_a_davis-1843-398pgs-sec_socRareBooksnRecords
The document provides a history of Freemasonry and its origins, making the following key points:
1) Freemasonry has existed since ancient times and aimed to encourage virtue and improve the conditions of humanity, even during periods of savagery and barbarism.
2) Freemasonry helped establish moral and social order by framing laws and civilizing savage peoples, drawing from religious and philosophical teachings.
3) Over time, Freemasonry's principles became corrupted or suppressed by religious authorities and ignorance, but its aims of bettering society and promoting philanthropy endured.
This document provides a 3-part autobiographical summary of the life and career of Don Bell:
1) Don Bell joined the US Marines in 1926 to become a foreign correspondent, serving in China and later working as a journalist in Shanghai until 1937 when Japan invaded.
2) During World War 2, Bell was captured by Japan and spent 3 years as a prisoner of war in the Philippines until being liberated in 1945. He worked as a radio correspondent and survived being reported killed twice.
3) After the war, Bell was shocked by the changes in America and dedicated himself to studying forces that were destroying the country, working to cover the UN and atomic tests.
Movements in judaism_zionism-richard_jh_gottheil-ny-1914-258pgs-relRareBooksnRecords
This chapter discusses the pre-Zionist period in Judaism and the context in which Zionism emerged. It outlines the Reform movement's emphasis on political emancipation and assimilation, as well as its rejection of Jewish nationalism and hopes for a restoration in Zion. It notes how the Reformers could not foresee how their views would impact future generations or the influence of Eastern European Jews. The chapter also discusses the historical tension between internationalism and nationalism in Europe and how the Jewish people occupied a precarious position without a national homeland.
The dan smoot_report-vol_xvi-1970-issues_18_52-203pgs-pol_psy-edu-socioRareBooksnRecords
This document provides a summary of the events at My Lai in March 1968, when US soldiers were accused of massacring Vietnamese civilians. It notes that the area, known as Pinkville, had long been controlled by the Viet Cong and civilians there often supported and hid VC forces. US troops sweeping the area frequently encountered booby traps that wounded or killed soldiers. The document outlines the planned assault on My Lai 4 hamlet by Task Force Barker under Lt. Col. Barker on March 16, 1968. It states the operation was completed without issue and 128 enemy were reported killed. It notes later investigations found approximately 20 noncombatant deaths from preparatory fire. The document questions reports of a massacre and provides context of the dangerous
Psychical research prof-hans_driesch-1933-190pgs-psyRareBooksnRecords
This document provides an overview of Hans Driesch's book "Psychical Research: The Science of the Super-Normal". The book aims to guide those interested in psychical research by discussing how to establish the reality of reported phenomena and how to evaluate different theoretical explanations. It examines methods for avoiding deception, both intentional and unintentional, in experiments. It also explores what would constitute decisive evidence for different theories about psychical phenomena. While not committing to any single theory, it argues different explanations have varying degrees of probability. The book seeks to navigate investigations of this field in a rigorous, scientific manner.
South shore charter_school-our_approach-1993-2pgs-eduRareBooksnRecords
The South Shore Charter School is accepting applications for the upcoming school year. Students in grades K-2 and 7-10 can apply, as well as students interested in the home schooling program. Applicants should submit a letter explaining why they want to attend. Accepted students and parents will help develop the curriculum and sign individual learning contracts. The school also offers programs for adults and high schoolers, including college courses, apprenticeships, and forums about the school.
This document summarizes and critiques points made in a report by Mr. Earl regarding the tax-exempt status of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID). It makes the following key points:
1) The LID began as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, a purely educational discussion group not committed to any political party or doctrine. It stimulated constructive thinking on social issues.
2) Mr. Earl selectively quotes from old LID publications to portray an imbalanced view. The LID is not responsible for all opinions expressed at forums it sponsors.
3) The LID's educational conferences discussed important issues like welfare states and involved experts from different fields. Mr. Earl again selectively quotes out of context to
Mc carthy and_his_enemies-wm_f_buckley_jr-l_brent_bozell-1954-421pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
This prologue introduces the book "McCarthy and His Enemies" by William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. It argues that McCarthy has been unfairly criticized by intellectual opponents who do not take his investigations seriously and do not investigate his record factually. It contends McCarthy's opponents commit an "intellectual felony" by making unsupported generalizations about McCarthy without examining the facts of what he has actually done and said. The prologue asserts McCarthy is one of the few politicians who takes ideas and intellectual choices seriously, while his opponents argue people should not be held responsible for their past associations and commitments.
This document provides guidelines and criteria for proposed school innovation projects in the Philippines. It outlines a standard project proposal format that includes identifying the proponent and contacts, providing a project summary with objectives and methodology, discussing the background and needs addressed by the project, outlining objectives, methodology with tasks and risks, costs, expected results, and a conclusion. Examples of completed projects are also provided, such as improving reading performance through parent involvement and establishing a school garden to fund educational resources.
logic mode is used for project analsysisAschalew37
This document provides an overview of a workshop toolkit designed to help practitioners learn about and develop logic models. The toolkit includes facilitator and participant workbooks, as well as presentation slides. The workshop covers the purpose and elements of logic models, and how to develop a logic model for a program or policy. It then demonstrates how logic models can be used as tools for program evaluation by helping practitioners develop evaluation questions, indicators of success, and evaluation designs. The goal is to build participants' capacity to design, implement, and evaluate their own programs and policies using logic models.
logit model for program and service delivery worksAschalew37
This workshop toolkit provides materials to teach participants about logic models and how to use them for program design, implementation, and evaluation. The workshop is divided into two sessions. Session I introduces logic models and their elements. Participants will practice developing logic model components through activities focused on sample programs. Session II demonstrates how logic models can support the development of evaluation questions, indicators, and designs. The goal is to build participants' capacity to create and apply logic models in their own work.
The document introduces SPEEDE/ExPRESS, an electronic system for exchanging student records between educational institutions efficiently. It was developed with input from organizations like AACRAO and involves standard transcript formats approved by ASC X12. The system uses electronic networks, disks, or tapes to transmit student data in a format that can be translated into any receiving institution's system. This facilitates accurate transfer of student academic histories and credits between schools.
This book review summarizes the key points made in the book "The Leipzig Connection" about the systematic destruction of American education. It traces how the educational psychology prevalent in the US was influenced by Wilhelm Wundt's work establishing experimental psychology in Leipzig, Germany in the late 1800s. Wundt's students, including G. Stanley Hall and John Dewey, returned to the US and spread his teachings that humans are merely products of their experiences, lacking free will. They gained influential positions in universities with Rockefeller funding, shaping teacher training and the curriculum to reflect Wundtian psychology. This corrupted education and spread rapidly as it was promoted by teachers colleges, especially Columbia University's which had strong Rockefeller backing.
This chapter provides background on Adolf Hitler and the early days of the Nazi party in Germany. It describes Hitler's upbringing in Austria and struggles as a young man in Vienna. It details how he joined the German army in WWI and was decorated for bravery. After the war, Hitler was inspired to enter politics after hearing Anton Drexler speak. He joined Drexler's small nationalist party and quickly became its leader. The chapter outlines Hitler's early struggles to grow the Nazi party through public speeches, despite opposition from socialists. It describes a pivotal early Nazi rally that was violently disrupted but from which Hitler and the party emerged stronger. The chapter establishes Hitler's rise from an unknown soldier to a leader of a bur
Staff development leadership-institute_for_principles-clara_boswell-1985-157p...RareBooksnRecords
The North Carolina Leadership Institute for Principals provides ongoing professional development for principals through various programs. It conducts around 30 regional seminars and 5-10 statewide seminars annually based on needs assessments. Seminars cover topics like evaluation, leadership, supervision and last 1-5 days. The Institute also offers coaching for select principals to train their peers. Other programs include liaison with businesses, internships, telephone assistance, newsletters and an assessment center. The goal is to support principals as instructional leaders through comprehensive, field-based training.
This document summarizes the challenges of leading planned second-order change or transformation in schools. It discusses four main challenges:
1. Conquering a world anchored in a pervasive status quo that resists change.
2. Working in a highly risky environment as the leader challenges the existing paradigm.
3. Helping the organization through a period of system-wide disconnectedness when the existing context is disintegrated.
4. Not being able to rely on tested change management techniques, as second-order change transcends logical approaches.
The document argues that successful transformation requires overcoming these challenges by progressively bending the pervasive mindset and surviving the risky period of ambiguity between the old and
The communist magazine-schools_and_the_peoples_front-1957-17pgs-eduRareBooksnRecords
This article discusses the role of public schools in the development of a People's Front movement in the United States. It argues that while public schools were established through popular struggle led by unions, they ultimately serve the function of perpetuating capitalist ideology. The article outlines some of the key issues with how schools are currently administered and the impact this has on students. It asserts that the educational crisis cannot be separated from the broader capitalist crisis. The article concludes by arguing for the development of a progressive philosophy of education centered around Marxism-Leninism to guide the people's movement in transforming both the content and administration of schools.
This document provides background information on the Senate Investigating Committee on Education in California and its investigation into the textbook "Building America". Key points:
- The Committee was established in 1947 to investigate widespread public protest against the adoption of Building America for use in California elementary schools.
- The textbook contained material that many felt was unsuitable for conditioning the thinking of young students and needed extensive revision. Only revised copies were available for the Committee to review.
- The State Superintendent criticized the legislature for withholding funds to purchase Building America, arguing this undermined the authority of the State Board of Education to adopt textbooks.
- The Committee conducted this investigation and report to provide the legislature with facts about the revised textbook, which
The czech conspiracy-george_lane_fox-pitt_rivers-1938-102pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
This document is an introduction and prologue to a book about the Czech conspiracy and its role in the events leading up to World War II. The author provides background on why and how the book was written, describing their experiences and research in Central Europe. They discuss the controversy around a meeting they spoke at about Czechoslovakia and the tensions around discussing different ethnic groups and minorities, particularly Jews. The prologue sets up the topic of the full book and arguments that will be made about the secret influences and plots that threatened to bring about catastrophe in Europe.
This document summarizes the activities of the American Newspaper Publishers Association (ANPA), which it describes as the "House of Lords" of the American press. The ANPA holds secret annual meetings to discuss plans and policies without public scrutiny. While publicly advocating for freedom of the press, the meetings focus on anti-labor tactics and fighting measures that threaten newspaper profits and the interests of big business. The document provides historical examples of the ANPA lobbying to benefit newspaper owners' financial interests at the expense of balanced coverage. It argues the ANPA has become an advocate for the policies of big business rather than upholding journalistic ethics.
The document provides background information on Dr. Ernest V. Hollis, who is testifying before the committee. It summarizes that Hollis has a PhD from Columbia University in school and college administration, and has experience teaching and serving as dean and president at various colleges and universities. It also notes that Hollis has written on the topic of philanthropic foundations and higher education, authoring a book on the subject in 1938 and several related articles since then.
The freemasons monitor-z_a_davis-1843-398pgs-sec_socRareBooksnRecords
The document provides a history of Freemasonry and its origins, making the following key points:
1) Freemasonry has existed since ancient times and aimed to encourage virtue and improve the conditions of humanity, even during periods of savagery and barbarism.
2) Freemasonry helped establish moral and social order by framing laws and civilizing savage peoples, drawing from religious and philosophical teachings.
3) Over time, Freemasonry's principles became corrupted or suppressed by religious authorities and ignorance, but its aims of bettering society and promoting philanthropy endured.
This document provides a 3-part autobiographical summary of the life and career of Don Bell:
1) Don Bell joined the US Marines in 1926 to become a foreign correspondent, serving in China and later working as a journalist in Shanghai until 1937 when Japan invaded.
2) During World War 2, Bell was captured by Japan and spent 3 years as a prisoner of war in the Philippines until being liberated in 1945. He worked as a radio correspondent and survived being reported killed twice.
3) After the war, Bell was shocked by the changes in America and dedicated himself to studying forces that were destroying the country, working to cover the UN and atomic tests.
Movements in judaism_zionism-richard_jh_gottheil-ny-1914-258pgs-relRareBooksnRecords
This chapter discusses the pre-Zionist period in Judaism and the context in which Zionism emerged. It outlines the Reform movement's emphasis on political emancipation and assimilation, as well as its rejection of Jewish nationalism and hopes for a restoration in Zion. It notes how the Reformers could not foresee how their views would impact future generations or the influence of Eastern European Jews. The chapter also discusses the historical tension between internationalism and nationalism in Europe and how the Jewish people occupied a precarious position without a national homeland.
The dan smoot_report-vol_xvi-1970-issues_18_52-203pgs-pol_psy-edu-socioRareBooksnRecords
This document provides a summary of the events at My Lai in March 1968, when US soldiers were accused of massacring Vietnamese civilians. It notes that the area, known as Pinkville, had long been controlled by the Viet Cong and civilians there often supported and hid VC forces. US troops sweeping the area frequently encountered booby traps that wounded or killed soldiers. The document outlines the planned assault on My Lai 4 hamlet by Task Force Barker under Lt. Col. Barker on March 16, 1968. It states the operation was completed without issue and 128 enemy were reported killed. It notes later investigations found approximately 20 noncombatant deaths from preparatory fire. The document questions reports of a massacre and provides context of the dangerous
Psychical research prof-hans_driesch-1933-190pgs-psyRareBooksnRecords
This document provides an overview of Hans Driesch's book "Psychical Research: The Science of the Super-Normal". The book aims to guide those interested in psychical research by discussing how to establish the reality of reported phenomena and how to evaluate different theoretical explanations. It examines methods for avoiding deception, both intentional and unintentional, in experiments. It also explores what would constitute decisive evidence for different theories about psychical phenomena. While not committing to any single theory, it argues different explanations have varying degrees of probability. The book seeks to navigate investigations of this field in a rigorous, scientific manner.
South shore charter_school-our_approach-1993-2pgs-eduRareBooksnRecords
The South Shore Charter School is accepting applications for the upcoming school year. Students in grades K-2 and 7-10 can apply, as well as students interested in the home schooling program. Applicants should submit a letter explaining why they want to attend. Accepted students and parents will help develop the curriculum and sign individual learning contracts. The school also offers programs for adults and high schoolers, including college courses, apprenticeships, and forums about the school.
This document summarizes and critiques points made in a report by Mr. Earl regarding the tax-exempt status of the League for Industrial Democracy (LID). It makes the following key points:
1) The LID began as the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, a purely educational discussion group not committed to any political party or doctrine. It stimulated constructive thinking on social issues.
2) Mr. Earl selectively quotes from old LID publications to portray an imbalanced view. The LID is not responsible for all opinions expressed at forums it sponsors.
3) The LID's educational conferences discussed important issues like welfare states and involved experts from different fields. Mr. Earl again selectively quotes out of context to
Mc carthy and_his_enemies-wm_f_buckley_jr-l_brent_bozell-1954-421pgs-polRareBooksnRecords
This prologue introduces the book "McCarthy and His Enemies" by William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell. It argues that McCarthy has been unfairly criticized by intellectual opponents who do not take his investigations seriously and do not investigate his record factually. It contends McCarthy's opponents commit an "intellectual felony" by making unsupported generalizations about McCarthy without examining the facts of what he has actually done and said. The prologue asserts McCarthy is one of the few politicians who takes ideas and intellectual choices seriously, while his opponents argue people should not be held responsible for their past associations and commitments.
This document provides guidelines and criteria for proposed school innovation projects in the Philippines. It outlines a standard project proposal format that includes identifying the proponent and contacts, providing a project summary with objectives and methodology, discussing the background and needs addressed by the project, outlining objectives, methodology with tasks and risks, costs, expected results, and a conclusion. Examples of completed projects are also provided, such as improving reading performance through parent involvement and establishing a school garden to fund educational resources.
logic mode is used for project analsysisAschalew37
This document provides an overview of a workshop toolkit designed to help practitioners learn about and develop logic models. The toolkit includes facilitator and participant workbooks, as well as presentation slides. The workshop covers the purpose and elements of logic models, and how to develop a logic model for a program or policy. It then demonstrates how logic models can be used as tools for program evaluation by helping practitioners develop evaluation questions, indicators of success, and evaluation designs. The goal is to build participants' capacity to design, implement, and evaluate their own programs and policies using logic models.
logit model for program and service delivery worksAschalew37
This workshop toolkit provides materials to teach participants about logic models and how to use them for program design, implementation, and evaluation. The workshop is divided into two sessions. Session I introduces logic models and their elements. Participants will practice developing logic model components through activities focused on sample programs. Session II demonstrates how logic models can support the development of evaluation questions, indicators, and designs. The goal is to build participants' capacity to create and apply logic models in their own work.
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Logic models for program
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evaluation: Workshop toolkit
Karen Shakman
Sheila M. Rodriguez
Education Development Center, Inc.
Overview
This Logic Model Workshop Toolkit is designed to
help practitioners learn the overall purpose of a logic
model, the different elements of a logic model, and
the appropriate steps for developing and using a logic
model for program evaluation. This toolkit includes a
facilitator workbook, a participant workbook, and a
slide deck.
At Education Development Center, Inc.
U . S . D e p a r t m e n t o f E d u c a t i o n
U.S. Department of Education
Arne Duncan, Secretary
Institute of Education Sciences
Sue Betka, Acting Director
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
Ruth Curran Neild, Commissioner
Joy Lesnick, Associate Commissioner
Amy Johnson, Action Editor
Chris Boccanfuso, Project Officer
REL 2015–057
The National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) conducts
unbiased large-scale evaluations of education programs and practices supported by federal
funds; provides research-based technical assistance to educators and policymakers; and
supports the synthesis and the widespread dissemination of the results of research and
evaluation throughout the United States.
May 2015
This report was prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) under Contract
ED-IES-12-C-0009 by Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands administered
by Education Development Center, Inc. The content of the publication does not neces
sarily reflect the views or policies of IES or the U.S. Department of Education nor does
mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the
U.S. Government.
This REL report is in the public domain. While permission to reprint this publication is
not necessary, it should be cited as:
Shakman, K., & Rodriguez, S. M. (2015). Logic models for program design, implementation,
and evaluation: Workshop toolkit (REL 2015–057). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of
Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and
Regional Assistance, Regional Educational Laboratory Northeast & Islands. Retrieved
from http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs.
This report is available on the Regional Educational Laboratory website at http://ies.ed.gov/
ncee/edlabs.
http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs
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Contents
Facilitator workbook
Introduction to workshop 3
Session I. Learning about logic models (2 hours) 5
Session II. From logic models to program and policy evaluation (1.5 hours) 30
Appendix A. Simple logic model A-1
Appendix B. Template for simple logic model B-1
Appendix C. Sample logic model for college readiness program C-1
Appendix D. Example of a logic model for an educator evaluation system theory of acti ...
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Assessment task 1: Knowledge Test
Required documents and equipment:
Computer with internet connection to refer to various resources.
Australian School of Commerce Learners’ resources for the unit BSBINN601 – Lead and manage organisational change (organised by the trainer/assessor)
Learner’s notes
Instructions for students:
§ This assessment will be conducted in Computer lab with access to the resources listed above.
§ You must answer all knowledge questions as part of this assessment and submit answers in electronic copy. The assessor will verify the authenticity of the work by asking questions regarding the answers provided. You must satisfactorily answer all questions to be deemed Satisfactory for this assessment.
§ Be concise provide explanation according to the given word-limit and do not provide irrelevant information. Be careful, quantity is not quality.
§ Be careful to use non-discriminatory language. The language used should not devalue, demean, or exclude individuals or groups on the basis of attributes such as gender, disability, culture, race, religion, sexual preference or age. Gender inclusive language should be used.
§ When you quote, paraphrase, summarise or copy information from the sources you are using to write your answers/research your work, you must always acknowledge the source.
§ You are required to mention your name and student Id in either header or footer of the assessment document to be submitted.
Planning the assessment
Access all resources mentioned in required resources, either printed copies or access via the internet.
You must answer all questions in the knowledge test assessment.
Time allocated to complete this assessment is 1 hours.
Complete and submit the assessment on the same day of the assessment.
Assessor will set a time to provide feedback.
Evidence specifications:
At the end of the assessment, student will be required to submit the following evidence on the same day of the assessment.
Completed assessment task with all questions answered.
Completed and signed cover sheet for the assessment.
Evidence submission:
· Documentation must be submitted electronically.
Assessor will record the assessment outcome on the assessment cover sheet.
Knowledge Test
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DESCRIPTORS
*Change Agents ; *Guides ; *Training Techniques ; Program Development ;
*Conferences ; *Summative Evaluation ; Manuals ; Participant Involvement,
Questionnaires ; Bibliographies
IDENTIFIERS
Knowledge Linkers
ABSTRACT
This project was designed to meet the following two objectives :
(1) to-produce a manual for educational knowledge linking change
agents, and (2) to develop plans and designs for the training of
educational knowledge linking change agents . This final report of
the project consists of three sections, as follows : Section I .
History oL_the Project--Background and Rationale ; How the Guide Was
Created : Cycles of Development ; and The Evolution of Change Agent
Training Strategies and a Manual for Change Agent Training Design ;
Section II . Evaluation of the "Guide" (Prototype #2) by 115 Change
Agents--The Reviewers ; Responses to the Review Form (Appendix A :
Letter of Invitation to Potential Reviewers of the "Guide" (Prototype
#2] ; Appendix B : Form for Background Information on Reviewers ;
Appendix C : Reviewer Questionnaire and Cover Letter) ; and Section
III . Evaluation of CECAT Based on Post-Conference Reactions of
Participants--Background Readings ; Printed. Conference Materials ;
Conference Activities ; Post-Conference Action Possibilities ; and
uture Need of Conference Related Materials ; and Appendix A :
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CECAT (Conference on Educational Change Agent Training) Evaluation
Form. A bibliography is provided . (For related documents, see
ED =056 256, 25S, and 259)(DB)
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Contract No . OEC -0- 8-080603-4535(010)
PREPARING KNOWLEDGE LINKING CHANGE
AGENTS IN EDUCATION :
A materials and training development project .
by .
Ronald G . Havelock
with the assistance of
.Mary C . Havelock
Center for Research on Utilization of Scientific Knowledge
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
October, 1971
The research repo : - ted herein was performed pursuant to a Contract No . OEC-0-8-
080603-4535(010) with the Office of Education, U .S . Department of Health,
Education, and We fare under the title "Diffusion of Utilization Research to
Knowledge Linkers in Education ." Contractors undertaking such projects under
Government sponsorship are encouraged to express freely their professional
judgment in the conduct of the project . Points of view or opinions stated do
not, therefore, necessarily represent official Office of Education position or
policy .
U .S .'Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare
Office of Education
National Center for Educational Communication
U .S. DEPARTMENT Of HEALTH .
EDUCATION & WELFARE
OFFICE Of EDUCATION
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3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
OBJECTIVES 1
A .
To Produce a Manual for Educational Knowledge Linking
Change Agents
B .
To Develop Plans and Designs for the Training of
Educational Knowledge Linking Change Agents 1
ACHIEVEMENT OF OBJECTIVES 2
A .
The Manual 2
B.
Trairing Designs 2
CONTENTS OF THIS REPORT 3
Section 1 : HISTORY OF THE PROJECT 4
A.
Backc round and Rationale 4
B .
How the Guide was Created : Cycles of Development 5
C .
The Evolution of Change Agent Training Strategies and
a Marual for Change Agent Training Design 19
Section II : EVELUATION OF THE "GUIDE" (PROTOTYPE 12) BY 115 CHANGE
AGENTS 30
A.
The Feviewers . .
R; view
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B .
Respcnses to the Review Form 34
APPENDIX A : Letter of Invitation to Potential Reviewers
of the "Guide" (Prototype #2) 44-~
APPENDIX B : Form for Background Information on Reviewers . . . 46
APPENDIX C : Reviewer Questionnaire and Cover Letter 48
Section III : EIALUATION OF CECAT BASED ON POST-CONFERENCE REACTIONS
OF PE RT I C I PANTS 63
A.
Backc round Readings 63
B .
Printed Conference Materials 67
C .
Conference Activities 68
D .
Post-Conference Action Possibilities 73
E .
Future Need of Conference Related Materials 76
APPENDIX A : CECAT Evaluation Form 78
BIBLIOGRAPHY 87
ATTACHMENT #1 : A GUIDE TO INNOVATION IN EDUCATION . . . Bound Separately
ATTACHMENT #2 : Checklists on Change Process Bound Separately
ATTACHMENT #3 : A Preliminary Version of a Manual on
Educational Change Agent Training Bound Separately
ATTACHMENT #4 : "Anatomy of a Communication Arc" Bound Separately
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4. OBJECTIVES
This project including amendments and extensions was designed to meet
the following tqo summary objectives :
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A .
To Produce a Manual for Educational Knowledge Linking Change Agents
1 .
To pr-pare a usefull reference manual on the dissemination and
utiIi'ation . process for the practicing knowledge linker in
education, building on the literature review on dissemination
and utilization entitled PLANNING FOR INNOVATION, ED #029171 .
2 .
To conpare alternative contents and formats for such a field
manual on the criterion of perceived usefulness by linkers .
To mace a full revision of the manual based on reviews by 100
representative linkers, this revision to include special
introluctory statements for administrators and other typical
users and an extended presentation on the role of change agent .
4 .
To prepare checklist summaries of major components of the
manual for future use os a workbook or as field instruments .
B .
To Develop-Plans and Designs for the Training of Educational Knowledge
Linking Change Agents
1 .
To crate an awareness and involvement in the problem of change
agent training by relevant segments of the educational community .
2 .
To prepare alternative training designs for such change agents,
speci'ying :
a .
identification and recruitment of appropriate
individuals for training,
b .
training workshop design (materials, structure,
staffing, funding),
c .
support materials for continuing use by trained
.agents (manuals, instruments, readings, etc .),
d . 'ollow-up consultation and evaluation activities
.and personnel required to staff a total on-going
.)rog ram .
Most of th.e resources of the project were assigned to these two major
tasks (A and B), but the project also called for some support of further refine-
ment of utiliza :ion theory along the lines of the "linkage model" proposed by
Havelock in his previous report : PLANNING FOR INNOVATION .
5. ACHIEVEMENT OF CBJECTIVES
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A.
The Manual
A manual of over 200 pages has been produced according to the process
specified in the proposal .
An early draft version (prototype #1) was
evaluated intensively by a small group of representative change agents . As
a result of this collaboration a second working draft (prototype #2) was
produced including case studies from these change agents . Prototype #2
was reviewed intensively and evaluated by 115 educators chosen systematically
to represent gerotypical future users of the manual . The response was over-
whelmingly favorable and in addition provided a quantity of information which
could be used fcr developing a third revision (prototype #3) .
Subsequently the manual, under the title "A Guide to Innovation in
Education" has teen distributed by The Institute for Social Research on a
limited basis urder a developmental copyright from USOE so that it could be
sold at cost anc used in a number of university courses, in-service workshops,
and conferences . The feedback from this controlled dissemination has indicated
that the "Guide' can be an important tool in training and in program manage-
ment in a variety of educational practice settings .
The "Guide' has now been further revised in accordance with objective A-3
to include a brief introduction for administrators and a greatly expanded
section explaining the concept of "resource linker" and two other alternative
change agent corcepts,-the "catalyst" and the "solution giver ." Additional
sections are nov , being written and all three appendices revised and up-dated, _
using non-federil funds in preparation 'for final publication . Negotiations are
under way with Educational Technology Publications, Inc . which has expressed a
desire to publifh the final version .
Checklists have been prepared for key portions of the text in accordance
,with objective l.- 4 . . However, these instruments have not yet been field tested
so that their utility is still a matter of conjecture . It is anticipated that
before such materials can be used as reliable tools of change planning, they
will require several cycles of development parallel to that of the "Guide ."
B .
Training Designs
On May 25 -:o 27, 1970, 51 nationally recognized leaders in the field of
change agent training were brought together at Clinton, Michigan to discuss
the critical is!.ues relevant to the content and procedures for such training .
The conference, itself, was an Intensive learning experience for those involved
and represented a major dissemination thrust for the "Guide" and for the need
for new resource: linking change agent roles . However, the conference also
produced a numb#:r of specific, through tentative, training designs for different
conceptions of .:he role . These are incorporated as Part V of the manual
described below
The primer" products relevant to the achievement of objective B-2 have
been assembled n the form of a manual for training program developers . This
manual includes sections on knowledge content to be trained, goals of train :ng,
principles of t -ainlng, an eight-part systematic framework for designing
comprehensive programs, and several presentations of alternative. training models
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6. Section I :HISTCRY OF THE PROJECT
Backgrounc and Rationale*
The 1960'! saw the emergence of a new awareness that research by itself
does not provice direct answers to the problems faced in the practical
world, and this awareness has been articulated in the formation of a new
discipline focused on the problem of knowledge dissemination and utilization .
Research studies of the dissemination-utilization process were virtually non-
existent prior to World War II ahd were restricted largely to the area of
agricultural irnovations until a decade ago . Increasingly in recent years,
however, there has been evidenced a dramatic growth of interest in this
topic in such fields as public health, mental health, medicine, international
development, and in partictflar, education .
Together %,•i th this growing interest in dissemination and utilization as
a research concern have come increasing efforts to establish dissemination
networks, new soles, and institutions designed specifically to speed the flow
of knowledge from research to practice . U .S . education has been in the fore-
front of this innovative trend . Starting with major federal legislation on
education in tte early 1960's, there has been a very rapid growth of research
and development centers, information clearinghouses, regional laboratories
and locally based and regionally based dissemination projects, conferences,
and training programs, all geared generally to the same end of up-grading
education by irfusing in the practicing school system new ideas and
innovations baied on - research knowledge' .
This proliferation of institutional forms has been so rapid that in
nearly all cases it has preceded the development of adequate role definitions
and adequate training and support activities and materials for these new roles .
Practically overnight, thousands of new knowledge linking roles (disseminators,
consultants, demonstrators, etc) have been created and filled'by people who
have only a vague conception of what the role is and no real way of preparing
themselves and supplying themselves with the appropriate knowledge and materials
for occupying the role .
Major contributions toward defining and publicizing the need for the
linker role in education were made by Clark and Hopkins (1966 a & b) when they
developed a ta) :onomy of linkage roles as a part of their study of "Roles for
Research, Development and Diffusion Personnel in Education ." They saw specialized
diffusion role! . as an essential accompaniment to the roles related to research
and developmen -: in education and further study convinced them that the demand
for persons to fill these roles would be tremendous in the not-so-distant
future .
The instil:utionalization of linking roles In education is urgently needed
to satisfy thi- ; growing demand and to assist in coordinating linking functions
so that role o•"erload and marginality, current major causes of linking failure,
do not become -:otally nullifying forces In knowledge diffusion In education .
The primary considerations for establishing and training personnel in linking
roles are outl ned by Havelock, et a) (1969, Chapter 7) .
*Much of this Material Is adapted from the original proposal
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7. To provide adequate support for these emerging linking roles in
education, the educational establishment will have to provide training
courses and field handbooks and manuals not only in specific content areas
r.uch as' reading, guidance, administration, and . curriculum but also in the
general processe•: of disseminating and installing innovations, planning of
:hange, and faci itating the flow of knowledge from research to practice .
This project was intended as one contribution to this difficult but essential
'rocess . Building on an extensive review of the dissemination and utilization
: :terature (Have~ock, et al, 1969), we set out to create a field manual for the
' :racticing knoa-le :dge linker in education . It was felt, however, that such a
iocument would be successful only if it were developed collaboratively with a
epresentative s :,mple of these linking agents . Later phases of the project
be concerned with further revision and extension of the field manual and
,he establishment of training programs to familiarize linkers with its contents
'nd potential uses . It was felt that through such programs some strong new role
;rages would corm into being through educators who were beginning to develop an
'identity and a de :fined area of expertise as resource' linkers .
B .
Howthe Guide was Created : Cycles of Development
1 . Review of Past Efforts and Development of a Proposal
This project began with a need expressed by the Office of Education
for a companion work to the extensive compendium and analysis of findings
on dissern:n:ition and utilization (Havelock, et al, 1969) . While this work was
still in progress it was already-obvious that its primary audiences would be --
researchers and policy planners who had the sophistication, patience, and
motivation ':o derive their own implications . What about the busy administrator
or practitioner who needed practical help on knowledge retrieval and utilization?
Was it not possible to develop cme practical guide for this broader and less
research-or ented audience so that the substantial existing research and theory
in this area could be put to more immediate practical use?
A firs' : step was to look for models of such an effort . Had anyone tried
to do this Before and how well had they succeeded? In 1958, Lippitt, Watson,
and Westley had published a volume entitled The Dynamics of Planned Change .
This book wars well written, summarized a good deal of existing research, and
was directed broadly at practitioners of change . However, it was still largely
theoretical-analytical in approach ; it did not draw specific implications for
specific si ::uatlons ; it contained few clearly specified "do's" and "don'ts" ;
it was in no sense a "how to" manual . Furthermore, The Dynamics of Planned Change
was not sysi :ematically evaluated by any group of change agents for its utility
or effectiveness before final dissemination . A more recent effort by Thomas E .
Woods, The /administration of Educational Innovation (1967) does a fine and
concise job of summarizing the rich literature on the diffusion of innovations
(touched only lightly by Lippitt, et al) providing it In pamphlet size in
the language: that a busy practitioner might understand and absorb . But Woods'
effort likewise was not tried out and evaluated on a practitioner audience and
probably dcx:s not have enough depth to be considered a manual on change .
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proposed by self-selected subgroups at the Michigan conference . Finally, the
manual includes a fully developed outline for training state agency change
agents .' Plans for publication and distribution of this manual on training
have not been fully formulated but it is expected that further revisions will
be made using ron-federal funds and that the Institute for Social Research
publications office will make the document widely available . .
CONTENTS OF THIS REPORT
This final report consists of three sections and four attachments as
follows :
Section I Narrative History of the Project including development
cycles of the "Guide," design, conduct, and outcomes of the
Mich ; gan Conference on Educational Change Agent Training
(CECI,T) and subsequet1t dissemination and training activities .
Section I Foaluat.ion of the Cuide (Prototype #2) by 115 change
(utem.o : a summary report based on returned data .
Section I I Evaluation of CECAT based on post-conference reactions
of participants .
Attachmen : #1 A Guide to Innovation in Education (Prototype #3)
plus revised and expanded introductory section .
Attachmen : #2 Checklists on Change Process intended to accompany -the
"Gu i Ae ."
Attachmen : #3 A Preliminary Version of a Manual on Educational
Chan- ;e Agent Training .
Attachmen : #4 "Anatomy of a Communication Arc" : a sample of work
partially supported under this contract to spell out theory
of utilization in more precise terms . This work is still in
j. .og -ess .
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9. In sea -ching for projects which tried to develop information
products ac :ording to a systematic evaluation and development plan
we came across a study of the comparative effectiveness of several -
kinds of ca,munication media, done in the field of vocational rehabi
litation (G aser, 1967) . A single message about an effective innovation
was transmitted by different media to several matched audiences and their
adoptive be'iavior was compared . Glaser found that the written communication
alone was sifficient for diffusing knowledge of the innovation, but that
the additioi of a demonstration conference or consulting activities
significant y increased its actual adoption . The key variable here was .
the opportuiity for the receiver to give feedback to the sender about
his evaluat on of the new idea in terms of his own experience . These
results sug•tested that various mechanisms, conferences, interviews,
evaluation "orms, and consultations might be needed (a) to develop a
product tha : was meaningful and useful to the intended audience, and
(b) to-diff-ise the product once it was developed .
Although the use of a training package for disseminating experimentally-
based or iniovative programs to practitioners is common, as are studies of
their effec :iveness, their diffusion potential is limited because these
programs hale generally dealt with specific innovations, have been
developed ii response to requests from specific audiences, and have been
designed to solve the unique problems of their respective situations .
Such was th! purpose of the social science curriculum development
studies of .ippitt and Fox (1964) . The same limitations apply in lesser
degree to Richland's "traveling seminar" (1965) for educational innova-
tion diffusion . Although such programs and packages are invariably
reported as "successful," each faced anew the problems of entry, resistance,
and linkage training with its respective audiences . ; Moreover_,. even haviYng
---solved these problems for themselves, they do not contribute very much
to our gene-al knowledge on linkage problems in education . Their techniques
for dealing with these problems are not readily generalizable to other,
audiences o - to the same audience under different conditions because
the techniqies of entry, linkage training, etc . have not been clearly
differentiated from the innovation itself .
Also, 3s these examples illustrate, much of the existing research
had as its )rimary audience that group of practitioners who are most
directly involved with the consumer (student, patient, etc .) . These
people are-arely in a position to assume the role of knowledge linkers
to other practitioners . They may or may not have the administrative
authority t) act as a linker or change agent in their system, but if
they are directly involved with the consumer they will have little time
or energy t') devote to linking activities after coping with the more
salient--ani urgent--daily problems in their own consumer system .
One attempt to overcome these limitations and to establish linking
functions aid roles as a permanent aspect of a school system was reported
by Shaevitz and Barr (1968) in A Training Program for Research Utilizers :
Philosophy Goals and Methods . Their simultaneous "microaction" and .
"rnacroactioi' i research directed training in change processes at class-
room teaches and principals and at people who had cross-building
responsibilities within the school system . However, a lack of user
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sophistication and an unfortunate lack of involvement on the part of
the participants motivated the research team to turn from general
issues of change processes to the solution, through change, of specific
existing prcblems in the system . Thus, the future linkage potential of
.these two groups remains unexamined .
Another important contribution to our early planning for this
project was the :work of the Communication Program of the Far West
Laboratory for Educational Research and Development directed by Dr .
Paul Hood . We were especially impressed by the systematic development
and evaluation process employed by that program in the evolution of
educational products, and we made a conscious effort to adapt their
approach in our own planning .
- On the whole, past research seemed to say exceedingly little about
,the effectiveness of specialized communications of the type envisaged
in this proj ect . On the other hand, there was some reason to believe
from numerous studies and observations of knowledge linking roles in
various othe:r fields that the development of viable knowledge-linking
roles in education would be significantly aided by the simultaneous -
development of training programs, handy reference tools, and other
software supports at least on a par with those now possessed by the
county extension agent in agriculture . They also suggested the need
for a development strategy which -included features such as :
piirticipation by the audience in product planning,
s"stematic evaluation, and
p anned diffusion including user training and follow-up .
With these ideas in mind the Michigan team developed a proposal
to USOE for- a manual incorporating features-(1) and (2) with the .
expectation that feature (3) would be added at a later date if the
early work '.as successful .
2 . Literature Review and Annotated Bibliography
After 7unding, :the project staff began by making a thorough search
for major wl)rks on &hange in education, updating the search` effort of
two years earlier which had led to the comprehensive literature review .
This time, aowever, we were especially on the look-out for literature
on change which was practitioner-oriented and in which derivations of
implication ; for practice were spelled out .
From 0is literature review the staff* developed the first product
of the proj.ct, an annotated bibliography of "Major Works on Change in
Education" +ith a detailed subject index . The subject index was later .
valuable as a key to specific points and quotations which we wanted to
include in the "Guide ." It was also anticipated that this bibliography
*Havelock laid oit the overall plan and took part in editing and screening
while the annotations and indices were developed by Huber and Zimmerman .
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would be a useful appendix for the "Guide," itself, and, for that
reason we used the following criteria for choosing works to be
cited :
(1) 3eneral coverage of, a range of topics relevant to
educational change .
(2) In book form .
(3) 'ublished and available in education libraries,
cook stores, or by ordering from indicated sources .
For tie most part we excluded empirical studies and reports on
specific research projects unless they covered a range of relevant
topics, offered both research findings and implications for practice,
and could se obtained as separate monographs .
Copies of the bibliography were printed and distributed both
by the Uniiersity of Michigan's Institute for Social Research and by
the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory .* Included was a
sheet entitled "feedback to authors" which asked readers to voluntarily
indicate how they had used the bibliography and how useful it had been .
Although this device induced only a trickle of responses (they are
still coming in) there seemed to be a generally favorable response .
3 . Choosing a Structure for the "Guide"
There were several alternatives available to us in structuring
the "Guide," and because of the potential importance for later utility
and acceptance by practitioners, we were anxious to explore a number
of them be"ore arriving at any conclusions . At least six possibilities
presented ::hemselves :
An encyclopaedic compendium of facts about change process,
written in a simple style with practical implications,
spelled out and arranged as alphabetical entries of any
length from a shout paragraph to 2 or 3 pages, thoroughly
:ross indexed . ;
Pros : relatively easy and straight forward to create,
a good reference for specific user needs, maximum
user selectivity allowed .
Cons : expensive to produce If done well (it would be very
large), hard to disseminate, very low user involvement
(impossible to read cover-to-cover), difficult to
use in a training program or in a course .
In neither case, were federal funds from this project used for dissemination .
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con; : it would be difficult to present a coherent over-
view or systematic topic coverage . Most of what
is written, even if it is very well written, is
not practitioner-oriented and does not go far in
spelling out the "how to's ."
(6) Problem solving stages : this is the approach used by
Lippitt, Watson and Westley (1958) .
Pros : from our reading of the limited research literature
on the change agent, this approach seems closest to
the way he organizes his life and work . It allows
systematic and logically ordered topic coverage and
is especially suited to the "how to" style of
presentation . It is also fairly involving and can
be presented in parallel with actual case materials .
It is also handy as a basis for simulations .
'nna : there is little agreement among experts on either the
numbering or the ordering of such "stages" ; moreover
it may be more difficult In this approach to pick up
the change agent "where he's at ." This framework might
be seen by some as too rigid and arbitrary to apply
to the myriad of situations the change agent might
find himself in .
After some discussions with other CRUSK staff experienced as change
agents and change agent trainers (e .g ., Ronald Lippitt, Robert Fox,
Mark Chesl .r, and LuciIle- Schaible)--and--some - intensive field interviews
with educational_ change agents in Michigan (in the state department, at
the University, and in three school districts), two facts became evident :
(a) that tie problem solver and the casebook approaches were both the
most user-oriented and (b) that it is very difficult to elicit meaningful
reactions to the idea of a product when the reactors don't have a model
of the "re-31 thing" in front of them .
Weighing these alternatives and facts, we chose the problem solver
stages approach as our primary structure for developing a first prototype
with the aided notion that various appendices (such as the annotated
bibliograp y) and a subject index could enhance its value as a reference
work, and that a series of case studies would increase and enhance its
value as a readable and involving book .
4 . &ptoratory FieZd Interviews
The exploratory f ;eld interviews were especially important in giving
us a picture of the "life space" of the people who are now operating
as educatianal change agents . It was obvious that most of these people
are not theorists or even grand strategists, that what they know about
the change process Is not very systematically organized and only loosely
articulated, that they think In terms of specific projects on which they,
are working, and that their thinking runs in a kind of a chronological
order as they talk about their work . It was evident that If we were
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( ) .%systems analytic framework such as Stufflebeam's
"Context-Input-Process -Product" (1970) .
would allow a systematic coverage of most topics
in a logical order . This would make the book
most useful to policy and program planners especially
if they had engineering backgrounds . Increasing
numbers of educators are becoming familiar with
this approach to conceptualizing and ordering the
facts about complex topics .
:ons : may not do justice to some of the social and
psychological realities which the change agent
must contend with . Moreover it, is still foreign
territory to many educators and enemy territory
to some .
(3) %communication model approach (i .e ., "Who says or does
rhat to whom by what channel to what eff'e( t .") such
is used by Hovland (1954), Rogers (1962 and Havelock
(1969) in his comprehensive literature review .
'ris : also allows systematic and comprehensive coverage
including the human and social variables . Further-
more since the prime sources are already organized
this way the task of retrieval would be greatly
simplified .
;ons : has tended to be a researcher's or theorist
rather than a practitioner's . _ ._
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(1.) % casebook with annotations for each case referencing the
-esearch literature .
.'ros : this would involve the reader and would be
especially helpful to those who find themselves
in similar situations to one or more of the cases .
It would also be an extremely helpful adjunct
to training .
'one : it would be very difficult to teach much substance
of the research or theory of change in this manner
and it would be very difficult to compose in the first
place . There is also a paucity of good, clearly
written case materials showing a range of the "do's"
and "don'ts" of Innovation management .
(5) %n anthology of the best writings available .
'roe : it would be relatively easy to construct such a
document . The bibliography previously described
lists several such works and a selection of the
choicest pieces from each would be a simple matter .
We could also guarantee that the writing would be
first class, the coverage broad ; and the points
of view varied .
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14. to be truly collaborative we would first have to give these change
agents a chance to tell their war stories in gory detail and we would
have to listen carefully to show them how their experiences and the
research on the change process matched up .
Originally a conference had been planned to attract twenty or
more educators representing change agents in at least four categories :,
(a) State Department of Education personnel who are engaged
in disseminating new knowledge to school systems .
(b) Directors of knowledge utilization and demonstration
projects under Title III of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act .
(c) Dissemination staff members from the Regional
Educational Laboratories .
(d) *Professors in schools of education .
However because of our budget constraints and the increasingly
evident need to work in depth with those who we contacted, we decided
to limit the first conference to five articulate and representative
change agents who would be willing and able to (a) read our materials
.critically and thoroughly, and (b) provide us with descriptions of
their work which could be developed Into cases for inclusion in the
"Guide ."
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The knowledge Linkers Workshop
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During the fall of 1968 and the early winter of 1969, the project
staff worked to develop a first prototype of the "Guide" based on
the problem solving structure in preparation for the first evaluation
by the change agents and a representative of the USOE (Mr . Richard
Elmendorf) . By February 15, each participant was mailed a rudimentary
draft version including drafts of the introduction, Chapter I "Establishing
the Knowledge Linker Role," Chapter 2 "Diagnosing the Problem in the Client
System," Chapter 3 on "Retrieving Relevant Knowledge," an appendix to
Chapter 3 on available information resources, Chapter 4 "Selecting the
Innovatior," and the annotated bibliography .
The conference was convened on March 15, 1969 . By prior arrange-
ment each participant began by relating a case of attempted innovation
from his %ork experience . The case could be either successful or
unsuccessful but in either case It should be the one he knew most aboL's
and the one that seemed to him to Illustrate the most about the change
process . After each presentation the project staff would question the
presenter and suggest how his narrative could be fitted to a problem
solving stages model of change .
Part of the afternoon session was reserved for comments and reactions
to the drafts of "Prototype #1 ." The introduction and the overall plan
for the "Guide" were received favorably as were the two appendices, but
all the participants found the writing style difficult and the layout of
chapters cumbersome and rather overwhelming in detail . It was clear that
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a more pal 'shed product was needed in a simplified writing style with
a reduction of diagrams and "telegrams" and an increase In narrative
prose and quotations .
On tht whole, the conference was very successful even if it
contained •.ome bad news for the development team . The case presenta-
tions were interesting, rich in detail, and right on target as potential
case mater 'als for the "Guide ." The feedback on the prototype also
provided explicit guidance for further development and support for
overall di-ection.
6. Creat- on'of Prototype #2
The first and most important task following the March conference was
writing and rewriting of the main context of the "Guide ." Havelock assumed
primary dutles .for this part, of the project, receiving editorial help and cri-
ticism frorr Douglas Truax and Joyce Kornbluh . The introduction and first chapters
were written and rewritten several times until the whole staff felt the proper
tone and flow were achieved . Once the style had been set and practiced for .a
while the writing became much easier .
Parallel to this activity the project staff was developing case
studies ba! .ed on the presentations at the conference . Four of the five
presentations were judged to contain enough detail to merit inclusion
in the "Gu de"* but they required extensive editing and rewriting before
they were !.uitable for publication . Part of this editing process con-
sisted of adding steps that might have or should have taken place but
were not s'.ated clearly by the presenter . This fictionalization was
minor but was deemed desirable for the sake of readability ., However,
it may have resulted in distortions such that some cases (e .g ., "Mike")
sounded more organized and more successful than they actually were while .
others (e .q ., "Steve") sounded less so . There was considerable disagree-
ment among the staff over the wisdom of presenting cases which were not
absolutely faithful to reality as spoken by the change agents . However,
115 change agents who later evaluated the "Guide" rated all the cases
as "typica"" or "very typical" in their experience ."
Considerable time and thought were devoted during this period to
providing ien Interesting and, readable format for the main text . In
prototype )`l we had provided a text with many headings and an elaborate
paragraph numbering system, Interspaced at frequent intervals with
quotes frori other sources . Our conferees felt that this approach
chopped up the text and made the flow of thought very hard to follow .
On the other hand they enjoyed the quotes which were on target.
The sc-lution seemed to be a two column format with the text flowing
down the lEft column and the right either clear for individual note-
taking or providing space for quotes where appropriate . Standard
reference footnotes were relegated to the back of the book and the
numbering system disappeared entirely . Another change was the addition
in the rigi-t hand column of references to case study material whenever
a point in the text could be illustrated by what did or did not happen
in one of the cases .
*The fifth case was the last presented and suffered from time limitations ;
there was litt'e time left for staff questioning and clarification after
the initial presentation .
4**See Section II of the report for presentation of this data .
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The "Guide" as It was developed during this phase of the project
had six components :
(1) The introduction which ex lained the purpose of the "Guide,"
suggested three alternate role models for the change agent
and a brief analysis of six process stages ("building a
relationship," "diagnosis," "retrieving resources," "choosing
solutions," "gaining acceptance," and "stabilization and
self-renewal ."
(2) The four case studies .
(3) The text of six chapters, each representing a "stage ."
(4) An alphabetical listing of specific "strategies" of
change .
(5)
(6) The annotated bibliography .
The fourth part (strategies) was derived from a CRUSK working
paper by davelock entitled "Innovations in Education : Strategies
and Tactics ." This listing was added as a compromise with the encyclo-
paedic ap3roach mentioned earlier .
As finally assembled, prototype #2, represented a comb Ination, of, .;J
approaches Intended to appeal to users with a variety of information
acquisition habits . The first three parts could be read in succession ;
the last three parts could be used for a variety of reference purposes .
A reader could also brouse or skim with the aid of charts, a clear
outline and headings and many quotes from the leading authors in, the
field .
We were concerned, of course, that all these elements might
represent too much for a manual of this kind but it did provide readers
with many alternatives, and with a thorough evaluation planned, we
felt that It would be best to let readers decide what should stay and
what should go .
7. Review by a National Cross-Section of Educators in Typical Change
Agent RoZes
By the fall of 1969 we felt we had a product worthy of field
evaluation . As called for in the proposal, reactions were solicited
from four groups of educators thought to be typical of those now
operating as "change agents" within the U .S . educational complex . The
sample chosen was not intended to be representative of the nation's
educational linkers in any strict statistical sense, nor were the four
populations from which they were drawn exhaustive of possible linking
role positions in the national educational establishment . However, each
of the populations chosen had certain distinctive features which made
them sigr•I ficant audiences against whose judgment the utility of the
An index of information sources in education (intended as
a supplement to stage 3) .
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manual should be measured . The significance of each group is specified
briefly below :
(1) State Department Personnel :
Every state employs a number of professional educators
(ranging from about 10 in the smallest states to about 200
in New York and California) as consultants, coordinators, and
disseminators in various specific subject matter areas typically
under major divisions identified as "administrative services,"
"instruction," and "vocational education ." Whether or not such
professional staff serve as knowledge linkers is not entirely
clear . However, such persons are strategically located and
formally charged with duties which bring them into frequent
contact with practitioners (administrators, teachers, and
other!) under circumstances where they may be seen as know-
ledge linkers .
State Department personnel are also significant as a
potential audience because of the probable increased reliance
upon the states for the administration of federal dissemination
progrcms over the next few years .
(2)
[SEA Title III Directors :
this title provides funding for locally originated
projects to diffuse innovations and facilitate the innova-
tive process at the school system level . With fiscal year,
1966, the federal government started funding 1,000 such
projects across the country . Directors of such projects are
change. agents or administrators of innovation activities more
or lees by definition . Hence, they represent a large and
rapidly grog:ing new audience for knowledge about the utiliza-
tion process . Study of this audience and its reactions to
the mi,nual might give some indication of the relative merits
of installing and supporting knowledge linkers on the local
schoolystem level in contrast to state, regional or federal
loci . An estimated 1,500 individuals belonged to this popula-
tion it the time the project began .
(3) Regional Educational Laboratory Dissemination Staff :
The REL's were established with the specific mission of
develcpment anddissemination of educational innovations .
Although they varied greatly [n size and emphasis, the 20
REL's then in existence represented an important emerging force
in the: educational establishment . They were stafTed by young,
eager and often highly skilled professionals dedicated to
educational change . Thus, although the number of individual
diffufion personnel (including those involved in demonstration
and field consultation activities) was small (approximately 200
individuals at that time) it was proportionally large within the
REL's . In addition the REL's deserve close watching as potential
loci for a vastly expanded federal effort in which an equivalent
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tive Extension Service)' would be installed in the field of
education .
(4) ~'rofessors of Education :
There are an estimated 50,000 professors of education
teaching in the 1,500 degree-conferring institutions of higher
learning in the United States . Although it is presumed that
few f-om this group would identify themselves as "knowledge
linkers" or "change agents," they represent the largest clearly
identifiable pool from which such persons are likely to emerge
In selecting a sample from this group for evaluating the manual,'
we were guided by such additional criteria as : some amount of
extension teaching, involvement in consulting activities uff
campus, and membership or training experiences with such groups
as th<: National Training ti-boratcries of NEA .
In accordance with the plan set out in the original proposal -
prospective respondents were chosen at random from available lists
and were sent a letter and a brief form explaining the project,
asking for them to spell out their current role and soliciting their .
consent to be reviewers of the manual in exchange for receiving a
complimentary copy of the final product .
The r-:sponse to the commitment request letter was very encouraging
(151 out of 200 or 75 .5% accepted) . Of these 115 later returned completed
review forms (75 .6*) .
Although the detailed results of this review process are presented
in Section II of this report, their import can be summarized briefly .
The review process was successful on three counts :
(1) It elicited a high rate of return .
(2) Reactions to the "Guide" as a whole and to all major
sections was overwhelmingly positive .
(3) The reviewers provided us with extensive and detailed
information for the development of a third and signifi-
cantly improved version (prototype #3) .
8 . Creation of Prototype k3
With additional support from the U .S . Office of Education we were
able to use the feedback from the reviews to formulate another revision
of the "Guide" in the winter of 1970 . . The principal changes made
were as follows :
(1) Complete rewrite (for about the tenth time) of the'
introduction .
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(2) Complete recomposition and rewrite of Stage III
(I'l.cquiring Resources") .'
(3) Introductions and "editorials" on each case study .
(4) Updating the appendix of information sources
(the obsolescence rate for this index is extremely
high)
(5) Minor changes in the other "stages ."
(6) The inclusion of many more references to the case
studies in the right hand column of the text .
Each of these revisions was based directly on feedback from
reviews .
Disserni:iation and Utilization of Prototype #3
This third prototype version was considered sufficiently polished
to merit limited distribution and utilization in some training workshops
and conferen :es . Under a developmental copyright, the Institute printed
and paper-boind 2,000 copies, recouping printing costs with a $3 .00
charge on ea :h copy .*
In addition to individual users, the "Guide" became the basis
for several in-service training workshops, conferences, and graduate
seminars among : which were the following :
(1) The "Guide" formed the basis of a training institute for
vocational education information specialists and program
administrators held at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May
of 1970 .**
At this event, participants divided into
four groups to simulate the development of a change project
using each of the six stages .
(2) Tb&_LG_u_1de" was one of several background documents
st-pplied to the Michiganan conference on Educational
Cta Qe Agent Training CECAT, see Part C below for
fuller discussion) .
*No federalfunds used for this purpose .
**One of seven institutes supported under a grant from the50_E to a consortium
coordinated by Forth Carolina State University entitled "National In-Service
Training Multiple Institutes for Vocational and Related Personnel in Rural
Areas ." The workshop In question was organized and directed by Dr . Douglas C .
Towne of the University of Tennessee, now at the Northwest Regional Educational
Laboratory, Portland, Oregon . The other workshops all received materials from
the "Guide" (Introduction and Case Studies) but specific training activities
were not based on them .
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t was a key document in a training program sponsored
by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,
Social and Rehabilitation Service (HEW-SRS) to develop
"Research Utilization Specialists" in the rehabilitation
.=field.
(4)
n the summer of 1970 the "Guide" was used in conjunction_
with two pilot programs to train state agency linkage -
agents (Project SPREAD at Denver, Colorado and the Pilot
'state Program sponsored by the National Center for
Educational Communication (NCEC) at the University of
Itissouri) .
(5)
n the winter and spring of 1971 the "Guide" was used
s
as the basis of graduate seminars at Michigan and at the
University of Sussex in England . In these seminars
graduate students worked on educational change projects
which were analyzed systematically according to the six
tages .
(6) "he Special Interest Group on Research Utilization of
:he American Educational Research Association held a
:hree day workshop at the Educational TPCtingService,
Princeton, New Jersey in February of 1971 at which the
"Guide" was one of the basic documents .
(7)
n June of 1971, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
held a 2 day - in-service training workshop at which the
"Guide" was the core document . In this seminar, participants
i:lustered into eight groups . Two groups focussed on each
of the four case studies, listing what should have and could
have been done at each stage .
The above represents only a partial listing of the uses of the :
"Guide" to date that have come to the attention of the author . They .
suggest the range of uses of the "Guide" and its potential utility in
the future as a field manual on change and as a basis for pre-service
and in-service training of resource linkers and change agents in a
variety of educational areas, roles, and levels .
10 . FUrthu'r Revisions and Additions Under USOE Contract
Although none were funded under this contract, most of the dissemination
events listed above were evaluated and provided feedback of potential
relevance for redevelopment of the "Guide" at some future date . Most of
this feedback was extremely positive suggesting that the core document
served Its purpose more than adequately . However, there were certain
changes and additions that might make it even more powerful and more
relevant for a wider audience . Therefore in a contract supplement the
USOE provided additional funds for the development of :
(1) Checklist summaries of major points in each chapter .
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(2) kn Introductory section for administrators snd at least
one other specialized audience .
`and (3) > new section on establishing the role of change agent-
<nowledge linker .
Each of these additions . was developed and written in the summer of
1971 and all are included in this report although none have been field
tested for effectiveness .
The checklists, which are contained in "Attachment #2" below,
still require and deserve considerable revision and evaluation . Ideally
they shouli follow a development cycle parallel to the "Guide" itself . .
It was decided that special introductions should be brief and fairly
broadly targetted or else they would throw off our original change agent
audience . The second introductory statement applies to "inside agents
working from below" which we found to be the largest class of users
and potential change agents on the educational scene, i .e ., students and
teachers w,-to want to change their own school . These sections are incor-
porated in the "introduction" to the copy of the "Guide" presented in
Attachment /1 .
The new piece on the problem of establishing the role of linker has
not been incorporated in the "Guide" as such (although the role description
section has been expanded and revised) . Rather it seemed appropriate to
provide this material as part of the manual on training program design
(Attachment 13) where it Is incorporated as elements of Part IV, especially
IV - 1_, 2, 3, and 5 . Considerations of role definition,development,and
installation are thoroughly explored throughout the training design manual
and specific alternatives are provided in Parts V and VI .
11 . Production and Publication of a Final Version
After two and one-half years of development and field evaluation,
-4the "Guide" has been shaped into a potentially powerful tool for
educational practice improvement . However, a good deal remains to
be done to make it widely dlsseminable and usable through the remainder
of this de.:ade .
The aithor has immediate plans to revise and expand several parts
including the introduction, Stage I, Stage VI and all the appendices .
In particular Appendix B has proven extremely vulnerable to obsolescence
and must be thoroughly overhauled . All these changes will be made by
the author and they will lead to the puJication of the "Guide" in the
spring of 1972, probably by Educational Technology Publicatons.Inc .
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C .
The Evolution of Change Agent Training Strategies and a Manual for
Change Agent Training Design
1 . Backgrc-und : The Need for Something Beyond the Guide
The original proposal for this project was focussed exclusively
on the development of a "Guide" to the process of knowledge utilization
(in early draft titled "The Knowledge Linker's Handbook") . The
"Guide" was to be targetted to a particular educational audience,
those concerned with utilizing knowledge to introduce practice improve-
ments at all levels and in all types of educational situations . However,
from the beginning there was a problem in identifying who these people
were by title and position . Up to now no one in education has carried
the title of "change agent" or "resource linker," "utilization specialist"
or "knowledge broker ." Yet once the development cycle began and we started
identifying individuals, interviewing them, and getting their inputs on
the emerging "Guide,"it became evident that while such people do exist.,
they are (a'l in very short supply, (b) know very little of the literature
on change, and (c) fly by the seat of their pants in developing change
strategies .
The "Guide" would be a help provided the right people were aware
of it, were motivated to read it, and had enough initiative to find
ways of using it in their work . These were all big "ifs ." Clearly
something mnre substantial and intensive was needed if we were to move
toward a really lasting, coherent, and professional concept of resource
linker.
As with the development of the "Guide," itself, we decided to move
forward in a collaborative and systematic way, this time involving the
key national leaders who had had a hand in the training of various types
of educational change agents or had a hand in administering organizationss
and program ; In which such individuals would be working (e .g, State
education agency staff) .
The idea of a training program design as the appropriate next step
in our program had roots in other events of the previous two years that
are worth noting :
(1) T-pe need for the design of some sort of nation-wide program
t3i diffuse current knoKledge on utilization and planned
innovation was discussed at length during the review conference
of leading utilization scholars in Ann Arbor in February, 1968
(that meeting was sponsored by the Literature Review Project) .
At that time, Everett Rogers described the experience' of the
National Project for Agricultural Communications (NPAC) which
was launched in the mid-fifties as a program to diffuse current
knowledge about communication of innovations to agricultural
change agents in all the states . There was consensus among
t-we group that a similar program was needed now in education .
(2) The same idea was proposed again to the Special Interest Group
on Research Utilization of AERA at the annual meeting in Los
Angeles in February, 1969, and strongly endorsed by ''ost of
those present .
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(3) Our experience in April, 1969, at the mini-conference
of educational change agents to discuss the emerging hand-
bcok (see B-5 above) strongly indicated the need for some
scrt of training workshop as a necessary accompaniment to any
written materials . The participants at this meeting were
or-ly able to identify themselves with the materials after
tFey had had a chance to discuss the "agent" role concept
In the context of their own work and to compare their
experiences with others engaged in similar activities .
For these reasons a proposal to extend the project to include a
conference to develop training program specifications was submitted and
approved by the USOE ; subsequently a second supplement was requested
expanding otn these Ideas and calling for more extensive conference
follow-up, (in addition to "Guide" additions described earlier) .
2. - Conference Planning
As a f rst step in developing this part of the project a planning
and steering committee was formed consisting of :
Ronald G . Havelock, Project Director
Henry 11 . Brickell of the Institute for Educational Development
Charles C . Jung of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Thomas C . Clemens of the U .S . Office of Education
This group represented a range of backgrounds and points of view
with a cormw)n central concern for the training of specialists in resource
utilization .-
The committee had these concerns : (a) to design an event that would
be involving, informative, and productive : i .e ., we had to attract the
very best people in the field, we had to teach them what we had in mind
as "resource linking change agentry," and we had to get them to work
together to produce some training designs . (b) to choose a list of
potential participants and a procedure for recruiting them .
To speak to the first concern, it appeared that the conference, Itself,
should be designed to have three phases : (1) input (to familiarize or
remind participants of existing state-of-the-art knowledge about
change process), (2) discussion (to analyze the problem of training and
to derive implications from research literature relevant to change
agent training), and (3) output (to work together In teams to put
together actual training designs based on (1) and (2)) .
To reinforce the input phase it was decided to provide all conferees
with advance written materials and to ask for extensive prior reading
and thinking on the content represented in these materials . By this
means, hopefully, all participants would arrive with some common knowledge
in their heads, some shared expectations, and a specific expectation that
they could and would contribute to the proceedings .
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Choosing and recruiting participants was also a crucial task .
We had to have people who (a) represented the highest . levels of
sophistication and understanding of change processes from a variety
of perspectives, (b) had long experience and know-how in the art and
science of training, per se, (c) understood the complexities of the
educational settings in which trainees would be working, and (d) had
the national recognition and respect as leaders and experts to give
the conference and its outputs maximum visibility .
To meet these objectives at least seven constituencies had to _
be represented in some degree :
(1) prominent researchers on educational innovation process,
(2) U .S . Office of Education : research training, planning,
dissemination,
(3) state education agency officials,
(4) school of education deans,
(5) superintendents or program directors for school
districts or exemplary programs,
(6) private enterprise, publishers, etc .,
(7) Regional Educational Laboratory and R&D Center
directors and staff especially concerned with
dissemination__and change .
Under these seven headings the committee drew up a list of over
150 names . From this list a smaller number (8-10 in each category) were
selected e.s the persons to be reached in the first wave of invitations .
Because of the prominence and expertise of the chosen group, it was
_decided ttat further inducement in the form of travel and living costs
should be offered . A grant of 2 000 was rovid
Research an th
'liza ion of
Foun ation grant to help defray these additional costs .
Sc ie . .n Knowled from i is Kell
Recruitment
Six key experts were contacted by phone approximately five months
before the tentative date set for the conference . Because the participa-
tion of these persons was deemed essential, it was felt that their schedule
should be checked first and commitments obtained . The fact of their
agreement to participate would also be a draw to some of the others we
would contact later .
A letter of invitation was composed explaining the nature of the
conference, objectives, time, place, etc . This letter was very care-
fully prepared, checked out with steering committee members and several
others,* and rewritten several times . A copy of the letter is reproduced
on the following page .
*Arthur Chickering was particularly helpful as an advisor on the tone and
content of this letter .
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CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON UTILIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE / INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH / THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
1 . "What do we now know about the management of educational innovation?"
2 . "How can this knowledge be effectively incorporated in the pre-service
and in-service training of administrators and educational consultants?"
3 . "How . can we initiate programs to provide this type of training for the
growing num er of educators across the nation who need it and are
asking for it?"
By bringing together' a group of thirty recognized national leaders-in
administration, training, research and practice, I believe it will be possible
to set down some guidelines and program alternatives which are truly creative .
and responsive to the need . Our work will result in a published document which
should have considerable impact . Th ebe-an., immediate influence on
training programs now in' the works tr1d`"a' .iong range influence in guiding future
program planning in this area .
The sessions will be designed to allow maximum contributions from each o
us and a maximum opportunity to exchange ideas . Thanks to support from the
U .S . Office of Education and the Kellogg Foundation we will be able to pay
expenses and travel for all party Tc pants . Additional details are provided on
the attached sheets . If you have any other questions on any of this, call me
collect at (313) 764-2560 . Please let me know by phone or return mail if you
think you will be able to join us .
Yours sincerely,
Ronald G . Havelock
Chairman
RGH :rw
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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN 1t10S
February 5, 1970
I would like ti invite you to join in a three day collaborative effort to
put together guidelines for the training of educational change agents .
meeting will be held at High/Scope in Clinton, Michigan on May 25-27,
The
1970 . W
will address ourselves principally to three questions :
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The basic information on plans for the conference was spelled out in
3-page attachment which is partially reproduced below .
'I
PLANNING FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE AGENT TRAINING
A Working Conference
High/Scope, Clinton, Michigan
May 25- 27 . 1970
"Ob ective : To pool what we know about the management of educational
innovation and to generate a set of guidelines for the
training of administrators and consultants who have the
responsibility for directing or advising innovation
programs and projects at various levels . We want to
think through the whole question of what is needed to train
people to be more effective change agents . Additionally,
we will be concerned with how we can plan a national program
or programs in this area .
"Why the Conference is Needed and Why Now :
1 .
P-evious reports calling for more change agents and disseminators
hive received considerable notice . A training design is the key
implementation step for establishing such roles in large numbers .
Ws are now in a better position to formulate programs than we
have ever been before because of the major reviews and summaries .
of existing knowledge on this subject that have appeared in the
last few months .
Tne federal administration is now searching for new approaches
to educational reform, and officials in the U .S . Office of
Education have indicated a special interest in the problem of
diffusion and utilization of educational innovations .
"Your Role ; You will be a contributor and resource person from your
experience and from the reading you have done . There are
no set roles, no papers read ; we will, however, furnish a'
number of background materials which should be read prior to
your arrival . These will help us get into the substance of
the meeting very quickly .
"Meeting Structure : We will subdivide into working groups of about 8 for
most of the time . The meeting will be carefully
planned so that we can wind up with a high quality
product and at the same time so that each man will
feel he is both learning and contributing in relevant
ways .
This conference, itself, should be a model for working
conferences of the future . To that end, we are going
to put together a number of ideas about meeting structure
and participation that have been used successfully in
the recent past and we are going to experiment with
some new approaches as well .
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27. "How Will the Three Days be Used :
Day 111
Implications of
Research and Theory
Day 12
On the second day, we will consider what we
Alternatives for
know about training and the manpower needs
Ideal Training
and resources both for trainers and trainees .
Programs
By the end of this second day we should have
identified a series of options or components
for the ideal training program, pre-service
and in-service .
Day 11
On the final day, we will consider implementation
Implementation
possibilities and strategies . How to organize
and fund a training program that will have
national impact will be a major concern at'
this point . How can we get maximum utilization
of what we have generated in these three days .
"Product : After the meeting, the training guidelines generated by the group
will be written up, edited as a report for the U .S . Office of
Education and for publication as a monograph . We are also
planning to Invite conferees to write brief position papers on
certain critical issues as these may emergefrom our, discussions .--
These papers will then be edited and published as part of the
report . Some additional funds are available for reimbursement
to paper contributors ."
The invitational letter and this advance descriptive material proved
to be extremely effective as 56 of the original list of 75 invitees
accepted outrighti Of the remainder most called or sent courteous notes
explaining their unavailability and regret at not being able to attend .
This response left us with an embarrassment of riches . Since we had more
acceptances than anticipated (a maximum of 50% positive response was
expected) we had two problems, first to pay for the additional travel
costs,* and second to design a meeting which could involve more attendees .
It was also pleasing to note that'we had acceptances from people in
each of the seven categories although as it later turned out, two chief
state school_ officers (Massachusetts and Colorado) who had accepted were
=enable to attend . AlAltogether
o the 57 persons who accepted invitations
participated in the conference .
*Again CRUSK helped us with some additional support from the Kellogg grant .
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We will spend the first day reviewing current
research and theory on innovation, planned .
change and knowledge utilization in an effort ;
to identify the essential facts that a change
agent or an administrator with change agent
responsibilities must know .
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4 . The Ccmferenee (CECAT)
On May 25, 1970 the "Conference on Educational Change Agent'Trainin
(CECAT) began on schedule at a secluded conference center in a country
setting* at Clinton in southeastern lower Michigan . Most participants
,arrived Sunday evening, May 24, for dinner and had an opportunity to
get acquainted or reacquainted informally before the actual work of
the meeting began .
Each participant had previously been mailed a number of materials
including a paper by Goodwin Watson summarizing the research literature
on research utilization,** Planning for Innovation by Havelock, et al .,
a 500 page work presenting a comprehensive summary of the literature on
planned change, dissemination, and utilization as of 1969, the "Guide"
(prototype 13) and another practitioner-oriented manual on the change
process prepared by Everett Rogers and Lynn Svenning for ."Operation PEP,"
a Title III project based in the San Mateo, California school district .
In addition each participant had been provided with an extensive
reaction form covering the major findings reported in these readings .
The form ac•ked for their theoretical orientation, their judgment of the
importance of various topics and their choice of a topic on which they
could serve as a special informant and resource person to others at the
conference . Nearly all participants had faithfully completed this form
and returned it to us prior to May 20th so that we were able to collate
responses and provide every member with a collective profile of knowledge
levels, attitudes, and interests of those attending the meeting .
Charles Jung=also prepared a list of generalizations on the training
process derived from research findings . We hoped that participants would
peruse these two documents fairly carefully to get a feel for what would
be discussed the first two days .
After a brief orientation session on Monday morning the participants
divided into six groups of about 8 members each ; these groups were pre-
selected to be more or less homogeneous on the basis of theoretical
orientation and topic interest . They were' each provided with a recording
secretary and were asked to appoint a chairman to guide the discussion, to-
keep time so that each had a chance to make a presentation around one of
the generalizations and to post the major points arising from the discussion
for sharing with the other groups in the late afternoon .
*Actually, because of the number of participants and the small number of
private rooms, many had to double and triple up . This caused considerable
discomfort to some . The site chosen proved to be a significantly negative
feature of the conference .
**Prepared for an NIMH contract to Edward Glaser and the Human Interaction
Research Institute to prepare a manual on the use of research results in
mental health .
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Following this orientation concerned participants were invited
to post an 'Idea for a change role or situation for which a training
program of some kind was needed . The question of level was also
left open . After these ideas were posted all the participants were
asked to read them and to sign up under them if they wanted to
participate in that task force . By t!'is process seven task groups
were formed ranging in size from two to seven members . In addition,
Jour participants chose to work alone developing their own models .
The first task force sessions on Tuesday afternoon were intended .
to explore the role concept under consideration more fully and to answer
the first question on the outline (role definition and rationale) .
Tuesday evening Havelock, Jung, and Clemens were to screen the prelim-
inary task force outputs and provide itiedback and comment on additional
points and clarifications that should be made in the Wednesday morning
discussions .
On Wednesday the first two hours were devoted to concluding the
task force work . At 11 :00 a .m. the task force reports were posted in
the large meeting room and output of each task force was summarized by
a spokesman . Reactions and clarifications from all participants were
offered .
A final session of the conference dealt with next steps which might
be taken to advance the training of change agents and reactions to this
conference .
This meeting was unfortunately too brief to reach much
closure and was rated as less than completely . satisfactory by those who
were still present .
5. Aftermath of the Conference
At the close of the conference each member was presented with a
long evaluation form which asked for ratings and reactions to each seg-
ment including advance materials, over-all design, group sessions, panel,
informal discussions, and task force meetings . Forty-one responses were
received representing about 90% of the participants who were able to
stay with the conference for the three days, exclusive of the chairman
and organizer. These responses are analyzed in Section III of this report .
Immediately after the conference H Yelock set about preparing guide-
lines for a model training program for State Education Agency change
~~e lists (Interim Report submitted June 30, 1970) . In developing this
p an, he reviewed the task force outputs and panel presentations, and
followed a modified form of the task force structure (with an additional
eighth element "utilization of evaluation") . However, it soon became
evident that the rich and loosely structured output Df the conference,
though a good stimulus, had to be augmented considerably from other
sources . This training model design is now incorporated as Part VI of
the "Manual on Educational Change Agent Training" (Attachment 13 of this
report) .
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The newsprint summaries of each group's discussion of the day
were posted a n the large meeting room and participants were encouraged
to "walk around" to inspect and consider the points made by other .
groups .
On the evening of the first day, these same subgroups met once
more, this time to consider the several additional topic items that
participants had added to the list on the pre-conference feedback form .-
These "hot issues" discussions were undoubtedly a highlight of the
conference for many participants as there was an opportunity to explore
issues of great personal concern and currency with a distinguished
group of colleagues . Some of these sessions continued well . into the
late evening hours .
The second day began with aa panel discussion of training "experts"
on issues particularly germane to training per se . Kenneth Benne, Matthew
Miles, Lucille Schaible, Irving Millgate, Ronald Lippitt, Floyd Mann, and
Max Goodson each made a brief presentation on training issues followed by
a general discussion including all participants .
Following this general meeting a new set of subgroups was formed
with each of the panel members as chairman of a group . The groups were
intended to discuss and post key training issues using as resources
(1) the Jung list of generalizations on training, and (2) the panel
discussion.
it appeared in retrospect that the device of a_!'panel" was somewhat_ .
divisive since many other participants hadexpertise in this .. .ea and
may have resented the apparent elevation of a few . Although the
conference chairman (Jung) and the organizer (Havelock) thought the panel
was very stimulating, it was not rated highly by most participants .
On Tuesday afternoon Jung and Havelock explained the nature of
the task for the last day, to work in teams to develop training designs
and in the process_ speak to seven questions :
"(1)
(3)
Define the change role, provide a rationale and state
limiting assumptions .
(2) Minimal preconditions for selection/training of trainers
and trainees .
Maximal outputs from training :
. . .attitude and value
. . .knowledge
. . .skills
(4) Ways to provide required training (e .g ., timing, scheduling,
setting, types of materials, types of experiences) .
How to set role in an institutional context .
Criteria for success in the role .
Evaluation process ."
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Startiig in June of 1970, CRUSK staff and assistants including
Joyce Kornbluh, Roberta McConochie and Mary Havelock began editing
task force -eports filling in gaps and composing prose drafts from the
telegraph notes and outlines left by CECAT . This proved to be a very
difficult aid frustrating task . In some cases they were able to solicit
revised cop( from one or another of the contributors . In other cases
an edited version was circulated among all contributors of that task
force for comment .
In still other cases editorial judgment indicated
that the primary thoughts should be incorporated in other parts of the
manual but that a "design" could not be reported as such . These judg-
ments were especially agonizing because of the investment of effort
and interest which the task forces represented to all concerned .'
Recorders' notes from each of the Monday and Tuesday subgroup
sessions were also edited and -typed . This material is not included
directly in this report but was used in preparing Parts I - IV of the
Manual on Training .
The fiial task under this contract was intended to be the writing
of alternative training designs based on the conference (CECAT) . The
State Agency design represented one effort in this direction . However,
it became apparent after the conference (a) that there was a large
variety of alternative concepts of change role and change process training
and (b) that the conference, per se, did not provide enough detailed,
input for tie full description of any one of them . Therefore the project
director decided that the optimum product would be a manual on training
design which would give a detailed analysis of the considerations, .
principles, and elements that should be incorporated in any such program
regardless 3f level or specific focus . In addition this manual would=
include the State Agency model (the interim report of June 1970) as
a fully developed example, and the most fully articulated task force
reports as image-makers for would-be program developers In different
areas .
Project director Havelock had other commitments in the fall and
w;nter of 1970-71 which prevented him from following through on . this
"manual" concept . Kornbluh and others attempted to develop this product
based on existing notes and outlines but they found that they did not have
enough background to complete the job . The present manual (Attachment X3)
was composed largely by Havelock In the summer of 1971 .
6 . Plans for Final Production and Distribution of the Manual
After this report is submitted to USOE, the manual will be further
edited and refined so that It is suitable for publication .*
A limited edition will then be published probably before the end
of 1971 ark copies will be sent to CECAT participants as promised
earlier . Large volume sales of this document are not anticipated .
although its utility to a specialized audience of trainers and training
designers should be very high Indeed . Publication will be by the
Institute for Social Research publications division and no claim will
be made foi copyright at least over materials prepared for the USOE
contract .
*This work will be undertaken without the use of Federal funds .
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Section II : EVALUATION OF THE "GUIDE!' (PROTOTYPE #2) BY 115 CHANGE AGENTS*
A .
TheReviewers
As described in Section I above, letters were sent out in the fall of
1969 to 200 educators in typical change agent roles asking if they would
agree to revieh the "Guide" for us . This letter is reproduced as Appendix A
to this sectior . Of the 200 educators whom we initially contacted 151 agreed
to review the "Guide" and they returned to us a form giving a brief descrip-
tion of their Grofessional activities . This form is reproduced as Appendix
B of this section . When prototype #2 of the "Guide" was prepared we forwarded
this to them together with an extensive review form, which is reproduced,
along with its cover letter, as Appendix C to this section . This review
form was actually completed and returned to us by 115 people, or 75 .6% of
those who had consented to review the "Guide ."
We initially planned to draw our sample of reviewers from four areas
which we felt were representative of typical potential users of the "Guide ."
These areas were : 1) State Department of Education personnel who act as
consultants, coordinators and disseminators ; 2) Directors of local innovation
projects supported by ESEA Title III ; 3) Regional Educational Laboratory
dissemination staff ; and 4) professors of education . We did carry out this
plan but we also decided to include a sample of educators chosen from local
school district personnel . We knew that our sample of Title III directors
would give us some indication of how well the "Guide" would be received at
the local level, but we also felt that these individuals are often engaged
in fairly specialized programs of questionable permanence . We therefore
decided that a ~#mpling of local educators in general would give us a broader
indication of ilie,,extent of the audience to which the "Guide" might appeal .
We wanted our reviewers to be representative of educators throughout
the nation, so our initial letter asking change agents to review the "Guide"
was sent out tc . educators In all 50 states and the District of Columbia .
Since not all c-f those whom we Initially contacted actually completed the
review form,- nc-t every state was represented in the final sample . The sample
was still widely representative, however, with the 115 reviewers coming from
37 states and the District of Columbia . Table 11 .1 shows the national distri-
bution by states of the reviewers in each of our five sub-groups .
[Insert Table 11 .1 here]
The positions held by the reviewers were quite diverse, but a brief
general characterization of those In each group may be made . There were a
total of 41 reviewers in the State Department group, and of these, 19 were
directors or coordinators of programs which ranged from vocational rehabili-
tation to statewide planning and dissemination . Ten were supervisors or
superintendents of departments within the state departments of education, and
eight were consultants or research utilization specialists . The-four remaining
members of this group were planners and project developers .
*This section was prepared by Mary C . Havelock .
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By an overwhelming vote of 36 - 3 (with two abstentions) CECAT
members exaressed a desire to reconvene within a two year period .
We have no current plans to do so but strongly recommend that USOE
take further steps in this direction . CECAT was not in itself an
unqualified success ; It did not produce the kind of product with
the detail and clarity we had hoped for, but it did demonstrate that
there was a great interest In this area across the nation among educa-
tional leaders, and to some ex
'
tent It Indicated that there is a community
of thought on what Is needed . Another CHAT or series of CHATS (regionall
or topically focussed, perhaps) with adequate funding for advance pre-
paration and follow up, would start a significant movement for educational
reform in the United States .
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34. TABLE 11 .1~ ~
National Representationin Sample of Reviewers
- Total for State
L - Local
R - Regional Labs
- State Department
III - Title III Directors
0 - Other
III R L 0
I
I
I
1
1
4 2
-
I
1
-
,13
State
TI S III R L 0
Montana
1 I- 1 -
Nebraska
I _ 1 -
Nevada
New Hampshire
I
New Jersey
1
New Mexico 2
New York 10
North Carolina
5
North Dakota 0
01(i 0 1
Oklahoma 0
Oregon
2
Pennsylvania'' -7
Rhode Island 1
South Carolina 4
South Dakota
6
Tennessee I
Texas 2
Utah I
Vermont 0
Virginia
3
Washington 0
West Virginia 0
Wisconsin 1
Wyoming
1
I
I
6 -
I
I
2 I
TOTAL
115 141 21 21 21 11
S to to
T S
1Alabama
4
Alaska
0
Arizona
0
Arkansas
0
California
13
Colorado
I
Connecticut
I
Delaware
I
Washington, D .C . 1
Florida
2 2
Georgia
2
Hawaii
0
Idaho
0
Illinois
3
Indiana
0
Iowa
3
Kansas
2
Kentucky
3
Louisiana
0
Maine
I
Maryland
I
Massachusetts
3
Michigan
14 6
Minnesota
3 1
Mississippi
0
Missouri
5 I
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Our reviewers included 21 ESEA Title III directors, 14 of whom listed
themselves as directors of special programs which ranged from curriculum
research to in-service education . The remaining 7 members of this . group
were administrators, either school principals, superintendents or adminis-
trative assistants .
Of 21 reviewers from the Regional Educational Laboratories, one was a
laboratory director and another was an assistant director . The group
included 12 directors or coordinators of various programs such'-as individual
learning and teacher training . The remaining seven reviewers in this group
held avariety of positions, mainly as assistants to the professional staff
of the laboratories .
Our sample of 21 local school educators included six superintendents
of schools and three principals or vice-principals . Nine members of the
group were directors of programs which typically served an entire school
district ; "Director of Research, Development and Planning" and "Director of
Secondary Education" were typical job designations . One reviewer was an
educational researcher and two were administrative assistants .
Our sample of professors of education was the smallest group, with
only seven respondents in this category . Their areas of specialty ranged
from community activities to educational research .
Four additional educators who reviewed the "Guide" could not readily
be classified as belonging to one of our five respondent groups . These
included a Program Manager for the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare and a director of educational research and training . We combined
the responses of these educators with those of the professors of education
to make a total group of 11 respondents which we designate as "other" in
reporting the responses to the review form.
We asked all our reviewers to indicate the activities in which they
were involved as educators and change agents, either full or part time
(see Appendix 3 of this section) . Their responses to this question are
presented in Table 11 .2, which shows the percentage of "hch respondent group
involved in each of 12 areas of professional activity .
[Insert Table 11 .2 here]
All groups have a very high' percentage of respondents engaged in
administrative duties, with a total of 71 .3% of all respondents spending at
least part of their time in this area . Just as outstanding is the fact that
apart from the "other" group, which includes the university professors, a
very low percentage of respondents are engaged in teaching .
The balance of their time seems to be spent primarily in research,
development, in-service education, and consultation, with some groups being
quite involved in committee and task force work . They also have apparent
high interest in maintaining professional relationships ; 80% of respondents
belong to at least one professional organization, and the average number of
memberships for all reviewers Is four . Judging from this profile I think we
can conclude that these educators are indeed acting in typical change agent
roles ; they are interested in and have access to many sources of new ideas
and they are engaged in many activities which would serve to bring their
information to the attention of others .
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'Professional Activities of Reviewers
*Percents for each group do not total 100% because respondents could check more
than one Item.
**The percent of "Title III group" respondents who Indicate they are involved
Title III programs does not total 100% because some respondents in that group had
recently completed their Title III programs . We left them in this group since
their responses to the handbook would still be representative of those of other
Title III program directors .
:ys
I
I
State
Dept .
Title
III R .E .L . Local Other
All Groups
Total
Number of Respondents 41 21 21 21 11 115
Average Age 45 47 38 42 44 43 .5
Highest Academic Degree :
Doctorate 50% 50% 63 .2% 42 .1% 80% 53 .8%
Pesters 50% 45% 26 .3% 57 .9% 20% 43 .3%
Bachelors 0 5% 10 .5% 0 0 2 .9%
Profess-ional Activities
Percent Responses :*
Teaching 17 . , 14 .3 19 .0 19 .0 63 .6 21 .7
Special Services 26 .8 28 .6 19 .0 4 .8 9 .1 20 :O
Counselling 12 .2 4 .8 4 .8 4 .8 18 .2 8 .7
Administration 63 .4 76 .2 61 .9 90 .5 72 .7 71 .3
Research - 63 .4 52 .4 81 .0 38 .1 63 .6 60 .0
Deveiopmert 63 .4 47 .6 81 .0 52 .4 36 .4
In-Service Education . 48 .8 42 .9 42 .9 28 .6 72 .7 45 .2
Consultation 56 .1 28 .6 42 .9 14 .3 63 .6 41 .7
Title I - ESEA 4 .9 28 .6 4 .8 33 .3 18 .2 15 .7
Title III - ESEA 39 .0 90 .5** 9 .5 0 9 .1 33 .0
Participation in
committees, task
force, etc . 39 .0 47 .6 23 .8 14 .3 63 .6 36 .5
Membership In Pro-
fessional Organize-
tions 85 .4 85 .7 71 .4 76 .2 72 .7 80 .0
37. 1
TABLE 11 .7
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The Six Stage Model
* 5 s "very clear" ; "very useful" ; "very good"
1 - "not at all clear" ; "not at all useful" ; "very inadequate"
**Responses to this question are given for each respondent group and each stage
in Tables 11 .8, 11 .9 and 11 .10 .
Tables 11 .8, 11 .9, and 11 .10 give detailed responses to the .
question on usefulness which was asked about each Individual stage .
The question was : "Usefulness : could you think of ways this stage
applied to your own work?" . Table 11 .8 shows the mean ratings each
respondent group gave to each stage .
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Mean
The other two questions in Table 11 .7 show an apparent discrepancy .
The first of these questions on the usefulness of the six stages was
asked relative to the six stage model .
The second was asked with
regard to the usefulness of each IndTvldual stage, with the responses
to each of the six stages being combined in this Table . Evidently
the reviewers found it easier to see the utility of each stage individually_
than to imagine themselves as approaching innovation In terms of a six
stage process . Hence, it may be somewhat more difficult for change agents
to accept the overall strategy suggested in the "Guide" than to adopt :
specific procedures and tactics related to the strategy .
~` ,
Percent Ratings Ratin s,
T Very
Clear
Mostly
Clear -
Adequately
Clear
Somewhat
Clear
'dot at all
Clear Total
Are the stages
distinct steps
in the process
of innovation? 55 .8 27 .9 11 .6 3 .5 1 .2 100 4 .3
Very
Useful
Mostly
Useful
Adequately
Useful
Not too
Useful
Not at all'
Useful
Are the stages
divided into
useful groupings
for your change
efforts?
l
34 .5 33 .3 24 .0 8 .3 0 100 3 .9
Very Somewhat Very
Good Adequate Inadequate lnadquate
Are the indivi-
dual stage
materials useful
- do they apply
to your own
work?** 54 .3 27 .6 11 .7 5 .1 1 .2 100 4 .3
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"Does it serve to show who a 'change agent' is?" the reviewers
rated it as 4 .0 on a five point scale (with 5 .0 representing
"very good" and 1 .0 representing "very inadequate") . On this
same scale the question "Does it make the objectives of the
handbook clear?" received a mean response rating of 4 .1 .
In order to aid us in the revision of the Introduction
we asked several additional specific questions which received
the following mean responses (again 5 represents "very good,"
1 represents "very inadequate") :
writing style : 4.3
organization : 4.0
clarity of pictures and diagrams : 3 .1
value of pictures and diagrams : 3 .6
We felt that although the general reception of the Intro-
duction was good, the responses nevertheless indicated some
deficiencies . We therefore rewrote the Introduction, making
a particular attempt to improve the pictures and diagrams .
2. Evaluation of the Case Studies
The rationale for inclusion of the case study materials
was, of & urse, to give concrete examples which would serve
to Illustrate the material of the later chapters ("stages") .
The case studies could be considered a success only if they
adequately served this purpose . We therefore asked our review-
ers whether they found the references to the case studies in the
text of Part 11 to be useful . The response was gratifying ;
80.0% of reviewers did feel they were useful . Another 9 .4%
felt they were not needed, while 10 .6% found them to be either
difficult to follow or distracting . Because of this very
favorable response, we added more references to the case studies
when we prepared Prototype 13 of the "Guide ."
Table 11 .4 shows responses of the reviewers to questions
about the detail, length and number of case studies presented .
(Insert Table 11 .4 here]
Clearly we hit It just right in terms of length and detail
of the case study material . We seem to have about the right number
as well, although 25 .3% of reviewers would have liked to have
more .
We were also Interested in how relevant each individual case
study might be to the experience of each group of respondents .
Reviewers were asked to rate each case study on the basis of how typical
It was of situations in which they themselves or someone they knew were
Involved . These responses are given in Table 11 .5 .
(insert Table 11 .5 here]
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39. TABLE 11 .3
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One additional fact might be noted ; none of our sample of local school
district personnel turned out to be engaged In ESEA Title III programs . Thus
our judgment 0-at Title III program directors would not necessarily repre-
sent a typical sample of educators at the local level seems to be' correct .
B .
Responses to the Review Form
There was no specific question on the review form asking the respondents
to give an overall evaluation of the "Guide ." Reviewers were asked about the
extent of their Interest in each individual section, however, and these
responses are presented in Table 11 .3 .
Overall Interest in the Handbook :
Percent Ratings
*Ratings are given for each Individual stage in Table 11 .9 .
The Introduction and each of the chapters on the six stages were rated
on a 5-point scale from very good to very Inadequate . The top two categories
(very good and good) were combined in the above table, as were the lowest two
categories (somewhat inadequate and very Inadequate) . The case studies were
rated on a 3-point scale of "quite interesting," "somewhat Interesting," and
"not very interesting ." We feel we made an error in judgment In asking for a
rating on this particular scale since the words "somewhat" and "quite" do not
convey precise levels of distinction_
Despite possible confusion on this score, however, we can still see
clearly from Table 11 .3 that the "Guide" as a whole was very favorably received,
with 76 .4% of all reviewers rating it as good or very good in interest .
1 . Evaluation of the Introduction
In addition to asking the respondents to rate the Introduction
on interest level, we asked questions which were designed to elicit
the reviewers' judgments as to whether or not the Introduction was
effective in fulfilling its objectives . In response to the question
.i 6
Very Good - Good
Adequate
Somewhat In-
adequate - Very
inadequate
Total
Somewhat
Interesting
Not Very
InterestingQuite Interestin
Introduction 75 .3 18 .0 6.7 100
Case Studies 60 .7 35 .9 3 .4 100
Stages* _ 79 .7 15 .1 5 .2 100
Total Handbook 76 .4 18 .4 5 .1 100
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TABLE 11 .5
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Case StudyDetail, Length and Number :
Percent Ratings
*
- "very typical" ; 1 - "not typical"
.18
Typicality of Each Case Stud )LL.
Mean Rating* by Each Respondent Group
I
Too
Detailed
Right Amount
of Detail
Not Enough
Detail Total
Detail 8 .1% 83 .7% 8 .1% 100%
Too Long Length Too Short Total
length 10 .5% 83 .7% 5 .8% 100%
Too Many Right Number Too Few Total
Number 1 .21 73 .5% 25 .3% 100%
Linda
(Black
Studiesj__
Mike
(Sex
__Education)
Steve
(Staff
(Development)
Henry
(Social Studies
Curriculum) TOTAL
State Dept . 3 .3 4 .1 4 .5 3 .3 3 .9
Title III 3.3 4 .3 4 .2 3 .5 3 .8
R .E .L . 3 .2 4 .3 3 .7 3 .8 3 .8
Local 3 .6 4 .4 4 .1 3 .9 4 .0
Other 3 .8 4 .3 4 .7 3 .6 4 .1
Total-
All Groups 3 .4 4 .3 4 .2 3 .6 3 .9
41. TABLE I1 .6
3 . F,vaZuation of the Six Stages
We were particularly concerned to find out whether the organiza-
tion of the handbook around the concept of six "stages" of innovation
would be judged as realistic and helpful by typical change agents .
Responses to questions eliciting this information are presented in
Table 11 .7 .
[Insert Table 11 .7 here]
We were pleased to find that our reviewers did consider these
"stages" to be clearly defined as distinct steps In the process of --
innovation ; 83 .7% felt that they were "mostly clear" or "very clear ."
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Though two of the case studies (Mike and Steve) were regarded
as more typcial than the others, the case studies as a whole were
rated as quite typical . Over all, the selection of case studies
had roughly equivalent appeal to each group of respondents, although
certain case studies seemed to be considered especially typical by
different groups . Each group rated at least one case study at least
as high as 4 .3 ; the case study materials seem to be representative
of a wide variety of change situations in education .
In Table 11 .6 we show the percentage of respondents who rated
each of the case studies in each level of typicality . Even though
the cases of Mike and Steve clearly led in ratings, this Table shows
that a large portion of reviewers considered the cases of Linda and
Henry as equally or more typical .
Typicality of Each Case Study :
Percant Ratings by all Respondent Groups Combined
Very
Typical
5 4 2
Not at all
Typical
1 TOTAL
Linda 23 .3 24 .4 27 .9 16 .3 8 .1 100
Mike 60 .2 . 17 .0 13 .6 6 .8_ 2 .3 100
Steve 48 .3 33 .3 12 .6 4 .6 1 .1 100
Henry 21 .2 43 .5 16 .5 10 .6 8 .2 100
TOTAL 36 .4 29 .5 17 .6 9 .6 4 .9 100
42. I
A
TABLE 1118
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Usefulness of the Six Stages :
Mean ratings* of each stage by each respondent
group
TABLE 11 .9
very good, 4 good, adequate,_2 - somewhat inadequate,
Table 11 .9 presents the percent ratings to this same question on
each stage by all reviewers combined .
Usefulness of the Six Stages
Percent ratings of each stage by all
respondent groups combined
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n very inadequate
I-
I
I
I
Group
Relation-
ship'
Building :
stale I
Diagnosis
Stage 11
Acquir-
ing Re-
sources :
Stage III
Choosing
Solution :
Stage IV
Gaining
Accep-
tance :
Stage V
Stabi-
I izing' :
Stage V11
All
Stages
State Dept . 4 .5 4 .3 4.1 4 .5 4 .6 4 .4 4 .4
Title 111 4 .7 4 .2 4 .0 4 .5 4 .2 4 .0 4 .2
R .E .L . -4 .1 4 .2 3 .7 4 .2 4 .7 4 .4 4 .2
Local 4 .2 4 .4 3 .9 4 .1 4 .2 05 4 .2
Other 4 .3 4 .5 4 .1 4 .4 4 .8 410 4 .4
TOTAL 4 .4 4 .3 4 .0 4 .4 4 .5 4 .3 4 .3
Stage
Very
Good Good Adequate
Some-
what In-
adequate
Very In-
adequate Total
1 . Relation-
ship Buil-ding 59.3 25 .9 8 .6 4 .9 1 .2 100
11 . Diagnosis 55 .7-ILL 28 .4 9 .1 5-7 1 .1 100
M . Acquiring
Resources 42 .7 28 .1 15 .7 11 .2 2 .2 100
IV . Solution
Choosing 58 .8 1 23 .5 12 .92 3 .5 1 .2 100
V . Gaining 7
Acceptance 60 .2 __20 2 7 .2 3 .6 0 100
VI . Stabilization 0 16 . 1 .2 1 .2 100
All Six Stages
Combined 54 .3 27 .6 11 .7 5 .1 1 .2 100